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A play in two acts (comedy drama).
In the single setting of a prison cell and its outside corridor,
four young men, prisoners, and a middle-aged guard live out the Christmas
season in an atmosphere of anger, violence and desire. Two characters,
Queenie and Mona, are openly homosexual and the other two prisoners,
Rocky and Smitty, fight to preserve their masculinity within a system
that encourages homosexuality by its very nature. The guard, called
Holy-Face by the prisoners, detests all convicts and is a racist and
sexist bigot who exploits prisoners for money. Before the play is over,
we see the first-time offender, Smitty, changed forever by a corrupting
experience.
5 Characters: Queenie, Rocky, Mona, Smitty and Holy-Face.
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by Anton Wagner
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