Fable and Plot Summary

Fable
The play starts with Katurian who is in an interrogation room. Soon two men walk into the room with a big box of papers in one of the men arms. After a few exchange of words you find out that the names of the two men are Tuploski and Ariel. They are both cops. The engage in dialog for a while about why Katurian is there. For a while, it seems like they are playing mind games with him. Soon Ariel loses his temper and begins to assault Katurian. After a while, Tuploski stops him and starts to read Katurian one of his stories called the apple men. The apple men, tells a story about a little girl who has an abusive father. In the story, the girl craves little men made out of apples and presents them as a gift to her father. She tells him not to eat them but being the pig that he is he begins to eat the apple men unknowns to him that the apple men have razor blades in them. He gets get in the throat and chokes on his own blood killing him. Later that night the apple men tie the little girl down and jump down her throat making her choke on her own blood as well. After they finish reading the story, they continue to talk some more where after Tuploski and Ariel get into an argument. Ariel leaves saying he is going to “talk” to the other one. Which you find out that its Katurians brother who is a special needs person. They talk a little more where Katriuan loses his temper and begins to yell at Tuploski. Soon Ariel comes back into the room with a bloody towel around his hand. Katruian throws another tantrum worried about his brothers well being. After things settle down Tuploski gets a box and puts it on the table. They then talk about another story which is about a little Jewish boy who gets teased his entire life and a man comes by and the little boy and him share a sandwich. After they are finished, the man cuts the little boys toes off and rides away. At the end of the story you find out that he is the pied piper and he saved the little boy buy cutting his toes off that way he couldn’t walk into the cages and be kidnapped. Tuploski tells Katurian to open the box and when he does, he sees the toes. He shrills backward in horror. They tell him it belonged to a little Jewish boy who had his toes chopped off. When Katurian tries to defend himself Ariel rushes him and tries to force the toes into his mouth to make him swallow them. Tuploski again stops Ariel from doing so. They argue again and Ariel leaves in a huff to get some torture devices. The scene moves over to Michael, Katurian’s brother. He is talking about a story of the little apple men. He is interrupted multiple amounts of times by the screams of Katurian in the other room. After things calm down, Katruian is thrown into the room with Michael where they talk about the things that have happen. Katurian then asks Michael if he hurt any kids where Michael denies any involvement with the murder of the kids. He later admits to it, killing the children. Katurian has a moment of break down. He then attacks Michael and bangs him around for a while. They settle down and Katruian reads Michael a bed time story of the little green pig. After the story is over Katurian sees Michael sleeping. He knows they are going to bed killed so he kills his brother through suffocation so he does not have to face execution by the police. He then decides to take the fall for his brother and admit to all the killings of the kids. When Ariel and Tuploski talk to him again they realizes that Katurian has no idea about the true death of the kids. That he is innocent; the problem is they don’t know where the third little girl is. Ariel is ecstatic that the little girl might be alive. When they find out she is alive Ariel is happy but Tuploski is pissed. You find out that Tuploski didn’t care about the kids when Ariel did. They put a bag over Katurians head and count from 10 to 1. Before they get to one Tuploski shoots him at three. In the last few moments Katurian made another story. Ariel saves Katurians stories and puts them in case files so that he stories may live on.

Plot Summary
Katurian, a writer of grisly short stories often showing violence against children, has been arrested by two detectives, Ariel and Tupolski, because some of his stories resemble recent child murders. When he hears that his brother Michal has confessed to the murders and implicated Katurian, he resigns himself to his execution but attempts to save his stories from destruction. The play includes both narrations and reenactments of several of Katurian's stories, most notably the autobiographical "The Writer and the Writer's Brother," which tells how Katurian developed his disturbed imagination by hearing the sounds of Michal being tortured by their parents.
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