Darkness At Noon: A Play

by Sidney Kingsley

Tragedy. A play in three acts by Sidney Kingsley, based on the novel by Arthur Koestler.
This winner of the Drama Critics Award starred Claude Rains on Broadway. A Soviet Commissar with considerable power in the party is jailed as the curtain goes up. He made two serious errors: he once fell in love with his secretary and he shot off his mouth at an inopportune moment. His torments and frustrations in the cell are dramatically heightened by other prisoners who communicate with him by tapping on the walls. Retrospective scenes explain his sentence and the series of ludicrously unjust hearings that lead to his execution. "Brilliant." Herald Tribune. "Pungent, spectacular melodrama." N.Y. Times.

Genres: Plays, Theatre

118 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1950

About the author

(22 October 1906 – 20 March 1995) was an American dramatist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Men in White in 1934.

Reviews

[Bobby Sullivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Totalitarian prison story. Reminds me a bit of McDonagh's The Pillowman.

[Rich Dias-rodrigues · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant rendering of already masterpiece of world literature. Read it if you can find it in your local library or used bookstore.