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Lenin (Only One)
Setting: A ghetto apartment in Moscow
Cast: Two males
Plot Summary: Two men,
both in their late thirties, are sharing a humble room in present-day Russia.
One of them is a former champion athlete, now unemployed, while the other,
an intellectual, has never worked in his life. In order to have something
to eat, the former athlete looks around for grocery stores with fat owners
so that he can steal tomatoes, potatoes, bread, cheese and whatever else
he can lay his hands on without getting caught. These two dissimilar but
close friends, who are always grumbling to each other, try every day to
come up with the idea that will enable them to "hit the jackpot", and save
them from the misery in which they live.
At last the intellectual
comes up with an idea which they put into practice. The two heroes steal
the embalmed body of Lenin, bring it by night to their room in a packing-case
and inform the Russian government and the whole planet that they are demanding
a ransom of a million dollars for its return. However, nobody cares enough
to offer to pay for Lenin. Days pass, the two men get into the habit of
talking to Lenin as if he can hear them, until they discover that not everyone
is utterly indifferent to him. Because at last they find one person, Only
One (the title of the play) who is willing to pay to have Lenin back.
42 pages
Catalog Number #OAPD045
ISBN number 1-894910-45-1
Price $4.95
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