Candoo!

DRAMAA. J. CANDOO JONES, A COARSE, CRUDE TEXASBUSINESSMAN, BUYS THE ACROPOLIS IN ATHENS AND MAKESTHE PARTHENON HIS HOME AND CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS.It is not only a fancier address than any in Texas but will, he believes, vastly increasehis already considerable fortune.His wife wants to turn it into a modern luxurious mansion but he has other moreambitious plans for it. He is visited by an Arab sheikh who thinks Candoo is the manwho can tow Antarctica iceburgs to his water-starved desert country; by a SouthAmerican dictator who wants to trade his backward country for the Acropolis, and bythe 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 himfo his hubris, Candoo is confronted by Zeus. It is the American master of the universeversus the king of the Greek gods.When Zeuss daughter intervenes, Candoo is faced with having to choose betweenlove and power, she between life and death.Read the play and fi nd out if they make the right choices