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Resistance
A Short One-Act Play
By F.E. Balzac Jr.
The original version of Resistance was written in the spring of 2017 for a playwriting course at SUNY Plattsburgh taught by Prof. Karen Hildebrand. This current version was given its first public presentation in November 2020 as part of six-part Zoom series produced by Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake, NY and directed by Leslie Dame, with a cast as follows:
Det. Ray Fortuna. . . . . . . . . Dylan Van Cott
Det. Bob Vogellus . . . . . . . . Robert
Andrews
Albert Dreyfuss . . . . . . . . Jordan
Hornstein
Cecile Dreyfuss . . . . . . . . . . Annie Scavo
Time: The present.
Place: A detectives’ room and holding cell on the third floor of
a New York City police station.
Synopsis: Two NYC police detectives—Ray Fortuna and Bob Vogellus—are “interrogating” an older man, Albert Dreyfuss, who claims to be the leader of a radical protest group. As an act of resistance, Dreyfuss insists that the detectives arrest and jail him. They resist and, when his wife, Cecile, appears, urge Albert to go home with her. Only one of these two efforts of resistance is bound to succeed.
Author contact info: F.E. Balzac Jr., 128 Shepard Ave., Saranac Lake, NY; feb6@caa.columbia.edu, 518-588-7275 (mobile).
Copyright © 2020 by F.E. Balzac Jr.