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A full-length play for 5 actors (5M/W). Set in a claustrophobic room, the five heads of the American military – Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard – meet after one of them, Thompson, was approached by the president of the United States who wants them to join him in a coup of our government. They also find out that the president has dirt on each of them and is willing to use it if they don’t. While...
A full-length play for 5 actors (5M/W). Set in a claustrophobic room, the five heads of the American military – Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard – meet after one of them, Thompson, was approached by the president of the United States who wants them to join him in a coup of our government. They also find out that the president has dirt on each of them and is willing to use it if they don’t. While trying to come up with a unanimous decision, they discover that one of them (still unknown) has betrayed them to the president. Thompson figures out who betrayed them (trying not to give away too many spoilers, if that’s okay) and decides, using the confession of the culprit, that, despite the possibly catastrophic personal risk, to stop the coup.