Synopsis
The Potsdam Quartet
Published by Samuel French Inc
5 Male 0 Female
In Potsdam, 1945, Churchill, Stalin, Truman, and Attlee are carving up Europe. Between conferences a string quartet plays to soothe the statesmen
When they are not playing, they wait in an anteroom where twenty years of love, squabbles, jealousies, jokes and music making unfold
"The joy of the play lies in the rich complexity of the relationships. . . . Wonderfully unforced humor" ~ N.Y. Post
"Not many plays . . . offer this much. . . . Musical transcendence versus the insanity of politics and war, music versus the disasters of personal life what an interesting theme to mull over" ~ Village Voice