Weapons of Happiness

by  Brenton, Howard

Published: 1976

Acts: 2

Language: English

Category: Drama

Acts: 2
Male Roles: 0
Female Roles: 0
Flexible Roles: 0
Has Chorus/Extras: No

Synopsis

Weapons of Happiness is a 1976 political play by Howard Brenton about a strike in a London crisp factory. The play makes use of a dramatic conceit whereby the Czech communist cabinet minister Josef Frank is imagined alive in the 1970s (in real-life he was hanged in 1952), and his hallucinations of life in Stalinist Czechoslovakia interweave with the main plot.