SILVER HEROES NEITHER GOLD NOR BRASS
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New Book Is an entertaining look at love and life
New York, NY – (Release Date TBD) – The art of stage plays lives on as playwrights continue to perfect their craft and produce entertaining and thought-provoking plays that truly frame themes still played on the hearts and minds of America today. One of these skilled writers is Robert Lesser who announces the release of his book Silver Heroes Neither Gold or Brass, a compilation of three of his brilliantly composed one-act plays.
The first play, which carries the book’s title, is an interesting view of love and war. A decorated World War II hero brings his young wife straight from the chapel to one of the places that kept him going in life: a strip bar. Just hours into their marriage, the two already see their relationship crumbling, but an old waitress at the joint and a drunk sailor help the husband and wife understand each other’s needs in love. While one tries to re-enter life after the war, both try to find a way to begin it together.
The second play is entitled, “Death Is as the Last Song You’ll Sing”, which is set outside the hospital room in the last hours of a dying woman. Her husband and two sons dare not go in—partly out of fear, partly out of being so feeble, and, still, partly out of waiting for their daughter-sister to arrive. The three grown men turn to the daughter-sister to be the “man of the family” and face her ailing mother on her deathbed and bring them through this ordeal without making any grave promises to remain locked up as babies under their mama’s care. This play is accompanied with a melodious song that is as thoughtful as it is amusing.
“Masquerade in Brass” is the third play and it is set in 1955 at the mansion of a prominent couple in Lake Forest, Illinois. A masquerade party is going on downstairs while they plop exhausted in the chairs of their huge bedroom—the result of having to walk three miles after their rip-off sports car broke down. Before husband and wife begin to argue about whose idea it was to purchase the car, a string of colorfully themed characters enter the bedroom one by one and strike up amusing and contemplative conversations-slash-arguments-slash-confessions with the couple. With witty lines that speak of love as soap and being democratic, the play refreshes aging views of striking social issues about acceptance and values.
About the Author
Robert Lesser is…several Robert Lessers. First, a playwright of twelve plays who believes in the insertion of dramatic poetry back into drama. The great Greek and Elizabethan dramatists used it. Why not now, again in hard, pulpy street language written to make the hair on the back of you neck stand up? Second, a humorist having written three novels of political and social satire who believes that the two feet comedy stands on are invention and exaggeration. Invented, funny and the original characters you’ve never met and never will (Dickens and Waugh) exaggerate to the point of absurdity…then laughter. Third, caught and tangled up tight in the spider web of collecting: the author of two popular books on Popular Culture and numerous articles. His collections have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
His life motto in Latin: NILS DESPERANDUM…NEVER DESPAIR.
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About the Author
Robert Lesser is…several Robert Lessers. First, a playwright of twelve plays who believes in the insertion of dramatic poetry back into drama. The great Greek and Elizabethan dramatists used it. Why not now, again in hard, pulpy street language written to make the hair on the back of you neck stand up? Second, a humorist having written three novels of political and social satire who believes that the two feet comedy stands on are invention and exaggeration. Invented, funny and the original characters you’ve never met and never will (Dickens and Waugh) exaggerate to the point of absurdity…then laughter. Third, caught and tangled up tight in the spider web of collecting: the author of two popular books on Popular Culture and numerous articles. His collections have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Life? Very fast! Teenager into the Air force into the University of Chicago B.A., M.A. worked in their Institute for Nuclear Studies into the business world, made money, out of the business world, retired, writing full time… Along the way many lovely women were very kind to him. His life motto in Latin: NILS DESPERANDUM…NEVER DESPAIR.