Idiot's Delight

About the show

The play takes place in the Hotel Monte Gabriel in the Italian Alps during 24 hours at the beginning of a world war. The guests trapped in the hotel by the sudden onset of hostilities are from Germany, France and the United States, including a British couple on their honeymoon. Harry Van, American, the manager of a group of strippers and dancers Irene, the glamorous mistress of a Nazi arms dealer Achille Weber, the arms dealer the Cherrys, British honeymooners Dr. Waldersee, a German doctor Quillery, a French pacifist Captain Locicero, the commander of the Italian headquarters located next to the hotel