{"id":811,"date":"2013-10-09T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2025-02-20T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:40:32","slug":"a-good-man-is-hard-to-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"A Good Man Is Hard To Find — A Short Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Thomas F. Rogers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

(For production by Professional Groups, College\/University Groups, Community Groups, High Schools)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A family in the deep south — mother, father, grandmother, juvenile son and daughter — take an innocent excursion into the countryside from which none of them is fated to return. Their nemesis is an escaped convict, the Misfit, who, with his two young accomplices, dispatches each of them in turn. The last of his victims, the grandmother, pleads for mercy. As she does so, her own shallowness and hypocrisy come to light. The Misfit in turn reprimands his accomplices for taking pleasure in the executions. In its enigmatic way, this one act play — based on Flannery O\u2019Connor\u2019s celebrated story of the same name — raises hard questions about mortality, goodness and Christian salvation. This is a particularly difficult play. It is dark, nearly demonic, yet almost prescient in the light that the original story was written back in the 1950s and this type of \u2018event\u2019 happens all too frequently in the 21st Century. Some may wonder why it is included here, among \u201cfamily\u201d offerings. It is definitely NOT for children, or even young teens. But it is a vital piece of theatre that examines the Human condition and sends out a plea for reason and sanity.\u00a0\u00a0 It is not crude. It is horrifying. It is not only entertainment. It is enlightenment. Some mild adult language.<\/p>\n

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