La Fiesta Del Chivo

Full Synopsis
Note: Throughout the play, parallel plots unfold in different time frames (past or present), and scenes switch back and forth between:
the reunion between Urania Cabral and herfather, Agustin (in the present);
General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s quarters (bedroom, offices, meeting rooms) where he meets with cabinet members, military officers, his henchmen, and the like (in thepast);
various opposition leaders who are plotting Trujillo’s assassination (in the past);
Secret Police headquarters where meetings of various sorts take place (in the past);
the reunion betweenUrania and her family (in the present).
-ACT I-
It is the present. Urania Cabral, daughter of former Senator and Trujillo’s close associate Agustin Cabral, has returned to the Dominican Republic tovisit her father. She hasn’t seen him in thirty-five years. Urania finds him confined to a wheelchair. His full time nurse provides Urania details about his daily routine. From the onset, we know Uraniahas returned to settle old scores with her father. Theirs will be a one-way monologue, for Don Agustin cannot talk as a result of a stroke.
Urania tells her father about herself. At 49, she hasremained single, "a spinster...a failure, as you intuited when I was a girl." She is a successful New York lawyer, much sought after by important men. Sarcastically she tells him she has become a Trujilloexpert. "Where have all your books gone?" she inquires as she describes her own library. She regrets that he cannot talk so he could set the record straight about so many things: "Did Trujillo go tobed with my mother, too?" "Was she thrilled, like all beautiful Dominican women of her time, or did she simply resign herself?" "Did you allow it and score points in your political career, like therest of your colleagues, or did you deny Trujillo the pleasure?"
Don Agustin jumps in his chair, but cannot answer. The nurse returns with his lunch; Urania tries to feed him, but he tightens his lips...