I have finally dug up my review of the play I think you are interested in-- though other plays have been suggested. I saw this production at one of the theatresof the University of Washington, and reviewd it in the Seattle Weekly of October 3, 1990. Some extracts from my rather unfriendly review: Tom Dulack's Incommunicado, a play about the imprisonment of the poet Ezra Pound, comes to town with impressive credentials. Winner of an award from the Fund for New American Plays sponsored by the Kennedy Center... it moved to the Kennedy Center after opening in Philadelphia in January, 1989. . . . splendidly acted and produced. But it should not be mistaken for a factual account of Ezra Pound's experiences. As the play's producing director says,s "We don't do history." . . . Tom Dulack's script focuses on Pound's relations with the black MP who guards him. . . While some of Pound's guards were black, there is no record of the poet's having learned to regret his racial prejudices, as he does nin the play. In life, Pound shared the unthinking attitude, common among people of his class, of friendly but insulting condescension toward blacks, and the guards, feeling sorry for their elderly prisoner, violated regulations by doing little favors for him, as the play shows.While in prison, Pound suffered a breakdown, but not, as Dulack has written it, as result of the execution of his black fellow-prisoner,Till.. . . Pound's quoting of "Pull down thy vanity" . .does not reflect a sudden consciousness of his blindness about race. [After some discussion of the danger the play raises of justifying the charge that Pound is a victim of Jews,the review says---] In the play, Pound's anti-Semitism is countered by a weak, sentimental and unnecessary paean of praise for Jews, voiced, unconvincingly, by the black MP. . . .His function is to lead Pound to suffer intense remorse for his mistakes.Nothing like these conversations could have taken place in actuality, and the real Pound seems never to have felt the slightest regret about anything but his failure to make his views prevail. [I hope this is the information you needed -- and more -- and that this is the right play.] Jacob Korg On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, tompare wrote: > Does anyone have any information about a play, advertised in the New > Yorker several years ago, concerning Pound in Pisa? I read the notice, > planned to see it if the opportunity arose, and missed it. I would like > to contact the author but don't know his name (or the play's title, > etc.). I would appreciate any help you could offer. >