1998 Fiction

Full Circle

Mee, Charles L.

The story of the Chalk Circle, set in Berlin as the Wall came down, backstage at the Berliner Ensemble. The Americans are there already, looking for investment opportunities, kidnapping babies, and careening through the old spas of Eastern Europe—as communism falls, capitalism moves in, and the guests at the wedding banquet table wonder drunkenly if, given this unhappy choice between the old and the new, there isn't some third way. [11 actors, 10 with doubling]