The Moon Is Down
mine itself. And as several of the invaders are murdered, they begin to realize that their hopes to be
accepted as good men bringing a glorious New Order are coming to naught. The townspeople
would rather starve and be killed than cooperate with the invaders. The officers and leading citizens
are pawns in a fruitless ritual of death modeled on the enmity between Socrates and the accusers
who forced him to drink hemlock.
Charictures.
Townspeople:
Mayor Orden - the mayor of the townspeople
Doctor Winter - friend of Mayor Orden, beloved town doctor
Joseph - a servant of the Mayor
Annie - the cook
Alexander Morden - attacked and killed Captain Bentick with an axe and was sentenced to death.
Molly Morden - The attractive wife of Alexander Morden
Will & Tom Anders - flee town to England in order to escape the invaders and ask for foreign aid
(weapons and dynamite)
The "Invaders"::