Excerpt from Plays of Today, 1950-1954Does the play make clear why so many of the earlier Revolutionaries were later liquidated? How confessions could be wrung from seemingly innocent men?Do you think the author, Koestler, has been skilful in lessening the horror of the play by making the victim a former Bolshevik? Or at the time of torture, does this make any real difference?Discuss the ¿ashbacks, as serving to lighten the tension, and afford change of scene.The story of the girl Luba. Apparently, in the Soviet ideology, any exaltation of human love above party zeal is punishable by death. Note how this theme is echoed in The Prescott Proposals.Would you like to see this play acted, or would it be almost unbearably poignant?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.