The First and the Last: A Drama in Three Scenes
1920
The First and the Last: A Drama in Three Scenes
1920
Two brothers. One murder. A courtroom of secrets. Larry Darrant has killed a man. The victim had brutalized Wanda, a young Polish woman whose only crime was trusting someone with power. When Larry discovered what had been done to her, he acted in fury and now faces the gallows. His brother Keith, a King's Counsel with a reputation to protect, must decide: will he defend Larry and risk everything he has built, or let the law take its course and preserve his name? But the deeper wound is moral. Wanda loves Larry, yet her presence in the trial threatens to expose the ugliness that drove him to violence. Keith's loyalty wars with his conscience. The family's honor wars with the truth. In three stark scenes, Galsworthy strips away the veneer of British justice to ask whether the law and morality are indeed the same thing, and what price we pay for choosing family over duty. A compact, relentless tragedy from the Nobel laureate behind The Forsyte Saga, this is theater for anyone who believes that love and justice rarely arrive in the same room.
