Synopsis
Willy's Cut and Shine
Published by Broadway Play Publishing
9 Male 0 Female
The regulars inside Willy's Cut and Shine Barbershop all witness the murder and watch the murderer casually stroll to his car
The question between the men in the shop - the dead man's brother, the elders, and the young men just returning from World War II - is the simple question of what is to be done ?
In the barbershop, the dead man's blood refuses to come up, and a brutal winter has frozen the wetlands of the Negro graveyard, cracking every pick laid to it
Quite literally, the problems will simply not leave them be
To this we add a Sheriff who abdicates responsibility, a young gambling junkie back home from Chicago, ghosts from the battlefields of France and Germany, a murderer who wants more than the dead man's blood, and the possibility of a soul's redemption or destruction
At the end of this drama, every character must decide what they are willing to do to see another sunrise