cover art by Maryann Callery
“Allan Havis's MOROCCO is an
absorbing cat-and-mouse game in which one cannot always distinguish the cat from
the mouse. Between the scenes and behind the lines, there is far more here than
meets the eye...
In what is partly a comedy of menace, Mr Havis artfully weaves a web of
suspicion around his three principal characters...
The author repeatedly encourages the audience's sense of wariness. One starts
to wonder if the characters are inhabiting a Morocco of the mind, or, perhaps, a
sanatorium. Step by step, we are led into Mr Havis's labyrinth. Beneath the
surface, the play is concerned with politics and terrorism as well as with the
polarities of personalities that can inhabit a marriage... There are significant
pieces studiously missing in Mr Havis's Pinteresque puzzle, a fact that enhances
the play's tantalizing air of mystery.”
Mel Gussow, The New York Times
first produced in a one act version by
American Repertory Theater, Cambridge MA
world premiere of the full-length version by Virginia State Company, Norfolk
3 M, 1 F
I S B N 978-0-88145-512-0
$14.95
read the first 15 pages of the play on line