Candoo‪!‬

DRAMA


A. J. CANDOO JONES, A COARSE, CRUDE TEXAS
BUSINESSMAN, BUYS THE ACROPOLIS IN ATHENS AND MAKES
THE PARTHENON HIS HOME AND CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS.


It is not only a fancier address than any in Texas but will, he believes, vastly increase
his already considerable fortune.


His wife wants to turn it into a modern luxurious mansion but he has other more
ambitious plans for it. He is visited by an Arab sheikh who thinks Candoo is the man
who can tow Antarctica iceburgs to his water-starved desert country; by a South
American dictator who wants to trade his backward country for the Acropolis, and by
the Prime Minister of Japan who makes him an off er no ordinary man could refuse.


A triumphant Candoo declares that he is divine, certain he can will he will not die.


After being warned that his arrogance off ends the Greek gods who will destroy him
fo his hubris, Candoo is confronted by Zeus. It is the American master of the universe
versus the king of the Greek gods.


When Zeuss daughter intervenes, Candoo is faced with having to choose between
love and power, she between life and death.


Read the play and fi nd out if they make the right choices