Living Values: The Play — A Verse Drama in Five Acts

Healthcare rationing rendered in iambic pentameter. Eleanor Mitchell, eighty-one, sits before a committee — kind faces, careful language, the smooth meter of a system that never says no. Her grandson Daniel writes a bestseller about her death, only to watch it absorbed by the very machinery he tried to expose — and when his sister receives the same diagnosis, the cycle begins again. Characters who accept the system speak in flowing, regular verse; those who resist it break the line. By Act V, even Daniel sounds like the committee that denied his grandmother care.

A verse drama by Richard Warburg
✅ Format: Shakespearean-style verse play, 5 acts
✅ Genre: Literary Drama / Political Fiction
✅ Companion to the novel Living Values
✅ Instant Kindle download

Mark well the meter of this gentle tale — its smoothest verse will be its sharpest nail.