Necktie Breakfast
by Bill Nave

Produced twice to acclaim at New York's 29th Street Rep, this riveting piece is set around the last public execution in the United States, the 1936 hanging of a black man for the rape and murder of an elderly white woman in Kentucky.

The mayor, surprisingly for this time and place, is a woman.

She was reluctantly thrust into office after her husband's sudden death and now must preside over the execution, even as she takes a stand against hypocrites, including those in her own family.