Daphne Lee

by Lance Tait

Daphne Lee, Chinese-American, lives in the San Francisco Bay area. In the year 2001 she went to China for the first time to learn more about the circumstances surrounding her father's violent death there. (She was a teenager in California at the time.) The play follows her personal, spiritual and cultural struggles. The ancient Greek goddess Athena (in modern dress) “drops” into the play. Athena has different ideas than Daphne has about why life’s such a struggle for her. A minimum of seven actors can take an assortment of roles.

96 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 26, 2023

About the author

"Werewolf and Idol" is Lance Tait's first novel. His extensive work for the stage includes theatrical adaptations of 17 short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. His one-act and full-length plays (40+ in total) have been produced or received staged readings in New York, Boston, the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, Los Angeles, Denver, Toronto, the United Kingdom, South Africa, South Korea and Paris, France. He is also the author of popular comedy sketches published on Amazon. In 2002, he founded Theatre Metropole in Paris. He has been active as a director/writer/producer of short films on the internet, as well.

Influences and likes (novelists): Sherwood Anderson (“Winesburg, Ohio”), Honoré de Balzac, Emily Brontë, François-René de Chateaubriand, Anton Chekhov, Philip K Dick, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hermann Hesse, Stanisław Lem, Mario Vargas Llosa, Edgar Lee Masters (“Spoon River Anthology”), Herman Melville, Robert Musil, Vladimir Nabokov, Mary Shelley, Frank G. Slaughter, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Stendhal, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Kurt Vonnegut, HG Wells, Virginia Woolf; (short story authors) Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe.