AMBROSE BIERCE
ALBERT BIERCE VUROS
ESPERANZA DEL MONTE
WILLIAM BRAND

THOMAS BURKS
JODY GILMORE
YVONNE ARIAS
RON COHEN

DEVIL'S DUE

Legendary writer, warrior, poet and cynic, Ambrose Bierce, in the early days of 1914, rode off to Mexico to join forces with the last remaining maverick rebel he respected, Pancho Villa. He never returned. The play imagines "Bitter Bierce's" final night on Earth, holed up in a north Mexican brothel, awaiting his own demise at the hands of a federalé lynching party he assumes is due. His minister cousin arrives instead, with one of Bierce's old journalistic rivals in tow, to convince him to return with them across the border. Bierce refuses to be "rescued," prefering a defiant fate to an old age sickbed at home. The result is a feiry confrontation between a determined man of the Cloth and the author of The Devil's Dictionary - but which will relent before death comes knocking?

_Not long after its premiere, THE LAST STAND OF AMBROSE BIERCE was accepted into the Official Bierce Bibliography by the Ambrose Bierce Appreciation Society. An early draft text of the play in its entirety can be read at their website.

Pictured: Yvonne Arias, Thomas Burks

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Article by Barbara Rose Shuler

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- Barbara Rose Shuler