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From White Plains
Michael Perlman
Dennis
by James Ryan
Synopsis
A full-length drama for a cast of 7 men and 2 women.
This rivetting factual drama about the relationship between two socially committed political activists in the sixties culminates in the assassination of one by the other.
Allard Lowenstein was a professor at Stanford who organized students to join a voter registration drive in the deep south.
A student, Dennis Sweeney, joins the crusade and there his political consciousness is formed.
Lowenstein eventually joined the political mainstream but Sweeney remained an outsider who drifted further and further into paranoia.
Sweeney became convinced that Lowenstein was a CIA/FBI/Whatever agent and killed him.
Press Reviews
"Mr. Ryan retains an admirable sense of humor.... Some crackling scenes... open up some genuine issues."
— New York Times
"A gripping look at politics, power and murder.... Engrossing theatre."
— Bergen Record
Publication
PublisherSamuel French
Year1986
BindingPaperback
Pages94
PlaceNew York
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780573690501
ISBN-100573690502
LCCN87165472
LCCPS3568.Y347 D4 1986
DCC812/.54
Dennis is a American play written by James Ryan and published by Samuel French in New York (1986).
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