Bitter Friends
by Gordon Rayfield

Name: Bitter Friends
Brand: Gordon Rayfield
SKU: 9780573692017
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)

Bitter Friends Book Cover — Bitter Friends Cover

Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

Unit Set/Multiple Settings American

Synopsis

David Klein is on trial for treason.

He gave top secret information to the Israeli government on a missile defense system designed to counter Soviet made missiles based in Libya and Syria.

The U.S. government had promised to give Israel this technology but reneged.

Israel recruited David to steal it, a task he sees as following in the heroic footsteps of his father who fought for Israel in the 1948 war of independence.

Rabbi Arthur Schaeffer, long time friend and comrade in arms of David's father, is politically well connected with the U.S. and Israeli governments and tries desperately to resolve the unresolvable: Israel will not acknowledge that it conspired to spy on the U.S. and David will not do anything damaging to Israel even if it means spending the rest of his life in jail.

Press Reviews

"A play which seizes the political moment and engages it with thrashing intensity."
— New York Times

"Bitter Friends held me in its grip from first to last."
— New York Post

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
EZRA BEN AMI, the Israeli ambassador, forties, wears poorly-fitted, inexpensive suits. Blunt, powerful-lloking, a soldier, dour by nature, but can be warm, if guarded. Always working to control more explosive feelings.	—	—	AMI, the Israeli ambassador, forties, wears poorly-fitted, inexpensive suits. Blunt, powerful-lloking, a soldier, dour by nature, but can be warm, if guarded. Always working to control more explosive feelings.