The Prisoner: A Play in Three ActsDramatists Play Service, 1956 - 69 pages The interrogator in a mid-European gaol and his prisoner, a Catholic Cardinal, get close during the process of extracting a "confession". The interrogator has a change of heart, though not of mind. |
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440 Park Avenue ACT I SCENE Barber believe betrayed blanket carafe cassock Cathedral cell Warder comes chair Church Cigarette coffin confession Cuckoo CURTAIN ACT damn dear desk Doctor door opens DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE drug face fake filing cabinet flesh fool Forgive Gestapo give glass guilty hands hanged heart human weakness I-SCENE impossible to trust Interrogation Room Warder Interrogator signs Interrogator sits INTERROGATOR'S VOICE kidneys kneels knew laugh leaving the door light Lord mind mother never night nines papers Park Avenue South pause poor pray pride priest Prisoner's cell PRISONER'S VOICE pulpit puts radio round Safety razor Saint Nicholas Secretary goes shirt sits sleep sorry stands Stephen stethoscope suppose switch takes talking tell Thank There's thing thought told tray wake wall Warder appears Warder goes watch What's window