Full Length, DramaCharacters: 2 male, 2 female Int.
The Frau used to direct beautiful films for a fascist
government. Now she's trying to make a film that's simply
beautiful. The Frau casts herself in the lead role of the Amazon
queen Penthesilea, who falls in love with Achilles on the
battlefield of the Trojan War. She recruits a man from the Jewish
ghetto to play her Achilles. Her own sister, a long-suffering
extra, plays all the nameless Amazons killed in the background.
With chariot crashes and adoring close-ups, it all has the makings
of a glamorous war. But when telegrams start to arrive from the
Minister of Propaganda, it becomes impossible for the Frau to
ignore the real war outside her sound stage. A darkly comedic look
at the role of artists during wartime, Amazons and Their Men is
inspired by the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl."The life of Leni
Riefenstahl...has been examined and critiqued aplenty, but rarely
so entertainingly as in Amazons and Their Men, a brash play by
Jordan Harrison."-The New York Times" In a dramatic masterstroke,
the playwright imagines Riefenstahl's film as it could have
been..."-New York Press"Filled with dazzling wordplay, archaic
vocabulary, and odd malapropisms, the theatrical worlds of Jordan
Harrison lift language off the page and into three-dimensional
space, creating a universe that is surreal and sublime, brainy and
beautiful-and wholly his own."-Brooklyn Rail
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