A Few Good Men

Characters: 14 male, 1 female Int. This Broadway hit about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on stage. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea bargain and a cover up of what really happened. Prodded by a female member of his defense team, the lawyer eventually makes a valiant effort to defend his clients and, in so doing, puts the military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial. "Enormously entertaining."- New York Daily News "Plenty of wise cracking humor and suspense." - Time Magazine "Fresh and adroitly updated and conditioned to our time and socio-political climate." - NY Post A few good men is a court-martial thriller in which two marines stationed in Guantanamo Bay, are accused of the death of a weaker marine in their unit. Dan Kaffee, a dispassionate attorney in the U.S. Navy is goaded on by a righteous-minded female co-counsel, Lieutenant Jo Gallaway, to make an argument rather than plea bargain. The play unfolds revealing the practice of unsanctioned hazing activity at the base and a cover-up authorized from the top Commanding Officer Colonel Roy Jessup.