You Arrogant Bastard

Haymarket

The History Department and Students for Economic and Environmental
Justice present:

A May Day Event

"The Dramas of Haymarket: Three Artistic Approaches to Telling the
Tragic Story of the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America."

-The novelist: Martin Duberman, author of "Haymarket: A Novel"
-The playwright: Zayd Dohrn, author of the play "Haymarket"
-The historian: James Green, author of the new history book, "Death
in
the Haymarket"

A Roundtable discussion with readings by the authors moderated by
Eric
Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History.

May 1, 2006
2:45-4:15 pm
Lerner E568 J.D. Satow Room

For more information contact nsg2010@columbia.edu.

PRESENTING
HAYMARKET
BY ZAYD DOHRN

SHERIFF: IT SURE IS HOT TODAY
SHOPKEEP: HOT EVERY DAY

(A SHADOW COVERS THEM ALL)

SHOPKEEP: WHAT IS THAT SHADOW
SHERIFF: MY EYES

(THE GILDED LAMPPOSTS THAT LINE THE STREETS BEGIN TO SHIMMER IN THE
WANING LIGHT)

THE CITIZENS: (MUTTERING)

SHERIFF: HALF OF YOU RUN THIS WAY, HALF OF YOU RUN THE OTHER WAY
A MIDWIFE: WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? WHAT OF THE BABIES BEING DELIVERED
SHERIFF: MAAM WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS BOMBING IF IT DIVIDES GILDED
AGE AMERICA

(THE FIRST BOMB STRIKES)

SHERIFF: AND THEN ILL WED YOU
SHOPKEEP: NO NOT MY MARKET NOT MY (LOOKS DIRECTLY AT AUDIENCE)
HAYMARKET.

(CURTAIN)

Posted by sw at April 22, 2006 01:46 AM