Political drama depicting the dying days of the ancient Roman republic:
The Roman commons have grown so dissatisfied with economic stagnation, detached elites, and dysfunctional politics, that they're willing to exchange their political liberties for a redistributional tyrant.
The Roman elite are deadlocked between two parties: An obstinately unresponsive ultra-conservative party in power, and a disorganized reform party whose leaders must repeatedly resort to unsuccessful revolutions for lack of constitutional social relief.
Catiline was the last reformer to unsuccessfully attempt such a coup d'etat (the next reformer, Julius Caesar, ultimately succeeding and ending the republic altogether).
This story details Catiline's failed revolt in 63 BC amidst such a volatile political atmosphere, wherein economic frustration is instigating the death of a democracy. As such, it's a cautionary tale for present-day circumstances in many parts of the developed world.
The entire piece is written in Iambic Pentameter, so its effect quite resembles Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' (for which it makes a suitable prequel).
