The Fountain. This 20�minute play is set in the park of a small American college town; the time is 1951. The dramatic tension is experienced in the contrast of the two characters, who meet briefly and by chance. The old lion�head fountain, crumbling and overgrown with ivy, is a central image on the set and relates to the character of the physicist, Samuel Emmenberger, who is fettered to a materialistic science that has made him a creator of atomic weapons. The saving grace enters with the child, Grace, who befriends the dignified, elderly "Sam."
See also: Nine Dramas, The Wise Gardener, A Twentieth Century Trilogy and Southwest Journey.
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