Drama 2 Acts - New York 1967
An American couple, Salem and Kent, languish in a Mexican hotel room, both of them victims of acute dysentery, known as La Turista. A Mexican boy arrives unbidden at the room offering to shine their shoes, but instead involves himself in finding a local witch doctor to cure their malady. The cure involves chants and dancing by the witch doctor and his apprentice son, followed by the sacrifice of two chickens whose blood is sprayed over Kent's recumbent body. The cure fails.
In the play's second act the couple are found in an American hotel room, still in the grip of their disease. This time they are treated, with the same lack of results, by an American doctor dressed incongruously in the style of a Civil War military medic. Kent, in a delirium of sickness and anxiety, escapes and is not seen again.
Characters:
- Salem
- Kent
- Boy
- Doctor
- Son
- Doc
- Sonny