Kingdom of Earth

Tennessee Williams(Dramatists Play Service)

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Full Length Comedy~ Drama//Lot is a weak and ailing youth who suffers from an attachment to the memory of his late mother.

He has come to his ancestral home, a derelict house on the edge of a soon to be flooded river, with his new bride, Myrtle, a television actress.

Somewhat reminiscent of Blanche Dubois from Williams's classic play A Streetcar Named Desire, Myrtle is a luckless young woman trapped in a world of romantic illusions, one of which is to nurse Lot back to health so they can consummate their marriage.

Myrtle soon discovers, however, that Lot only wants to use her to steal the deed to the property from his embittered half-brother, Chicken, a Stanley Kowalski type, brimming with masculinity and assertiveness and a few romantic plans of his own.(Cast: 2 men, 1 woman)

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