Agatha's Last Supper: A dark comedy in two acts

By Evi Tsaousaki

The theme of the play is an unorthodox imaginary family compound of heretical characters which many of them, if combined by twos, are the ends of a conscience and a lesson about life to excess of.
Agatha, the chatelaine invites her family in England to celebrate her birthday and tell them who will inherit her huge mansion.
Her brother and her sister, her lifelong friend and physician are some guests of the list. Carl (a psychiatrist), Lou (a linguist and theologian), Aleister (a black magician), Tamara (a painter), Giacomo (a rich man by profession and a big lover), April (a famous model), Will and George (politicians) and Mary (wife of Will and mother of George and Giacomo) and a last minitue guest, Rene (a painter) keep in suspense everyone in Agatha’s Last Supper.
Berta (Agatha’s crazy maid) and Alexis (Agatha’s servant) are also keeping big secrets at the end of the play.
The events evolve on New Year’s Eve of the year one thousand nine hundred thirty-five (1935) through a magnifying lens of a seeker of truth about the simple everyday life issues such as: love, education, art, politics, medicine and ethics.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AKAKIA Publications
• Release date: Jul 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9781912935192

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TWO

List of characters

AGATHA

The châtelaine, Madge and Trevor’s sister and Carl, Aleister, Will, Giacomo and George’s aunt.

MADGE

Agatha and Trevor’s sister, 60 years old, Carl and Aleister’s mother. A widow.

TREVOR

Agatha and Madge’s brother, the oldest in the family. A widower. Will the politician’s father and Giacomo and George’s grandfather.

Dr. CHARLES

The family physician and a lifelong friend. A bachelor.

CARL

Widow Madge’s son, roughly 42 years old. A psychiatrist married to Lou.

ALEISTER

Widow Madge’s son, 40 years old, a black magician. Married to Alice.

WILL

Trevor’s son, roughly 62 years old, leader of a political party. He is married to Mary and has two children, Giacomo and George.

GIACOMO

Will’s son, roughly 38 years old. A rich man by profession and titled. Married to Tamara.

GEORGE

Will’s son, aged 35. He is a politician and is engaged to April.

LOU

Carl’s spouse, she is 5 years younger than him. She is a linguist and a theologian and has one daughter.

TAMARA

Giacomo’s spouse, about 35 years old, a beautiful and famous painter of the era. She has a son from her first marriage.

APRIL

A famous model of that era in Britain, betrothed to George, about 25 years old.

MARY

Will’s spouse and George and Giacomo’s mother. Aged about 60 years old.

RENÉ

A friend of Carl’s and a celebrated Belgian painter. An eligible bachelor.

BERTA

Agatha’s maid, 23 years old.

ALEXIS

Agatha’s 35-year-old servant. A Greek from Crete.

PLACE

The front door and dining room of a stone-built château in the English countryside.

TIME

Evening and night of December 31, 1935.

THE STAGE

The play unfolds outside the château, in front of the front door, inside the living room, and the dining room. Outside one can see the trees of the courtyard, the flight of steps leading to the front door and the iron door-knocker.

Inside the château, the entrance features a screen for hanging overcoats behind it and a round table with a vase. Moving inside, we see the French windows of the dining room and the trees in the garden. Next to the French windows a huge bookcase surrounds a fireplace. Two armchairs are placed in front of the fireplace, while yonder is a velvet sofa and a piano separating this space from the dining room. The dining room is close to the central staircase and the door leading to the kitchen.