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   Creator of Dracula Bram Stoker

Poet for the New Age William Butler Yeats

Yeats’ and Crowley’s contention for leadership of the Order of the Golden Dawn escalates as the mysterious and reclusive author Fiona MacLeod is about to be initiated. Those present: Maud Gonne, the Irish revolutionary and one of the most beautiful women of her time; Florence Farr Emery, the celebrated Victorian actress; and Bram Stoker. William Sharp, a noted Victorian critic, arrives uninvited, in search of his cousin Fiona, but is turned away.

Yeats, who sees the occult Order as a prototype and a harbinger of a new age of inspiration and hope for mankind, has for many years been in love with Maud. She thinks of Yeats as her soul mate, but keeps details of her intimate life secret from him, and refuses to take him as her lover. In desperation, Yeats turns to a willing Florence; while the charismatic Crowley, rejecting moral boundaries in his pursuit of Faustian knowledge and power, is seducing both Florence and Fiona.

At the play’s dramatic climax, Fiona, in a prescient trance-state induced by Crowley, forces each of those present to confront his or her inner motivation and fate. We finally learn who the mysterious Fiona MacLeod really is.

The attempt at psychic discovery and mystical union through the Order of the Golden Dawn has been destroyed -- each must seek another path.

The six actors --- two females, three males, and one playing a male and female -- are all in their 20’s or 30’s, except the early-50’s male playing Stoker.

The single set represents the meeting room of the Isis-Urania Temple of the Order of the Golden Dawn, London. Other locales are minimally suggested.