The Wedding Cup

About the Book

Based on actual events during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, “The Wedding Cup” is a drama about the tragic love triangle between Sophonisba, a Carthaginian general’s daughter, and the rival rulers of two North African states. As Scipio, the Roman general, prepares to invade Africa, Sophonisba must make dreadful choices which will ultimately shape history. “No Woman is an Island” is a comic short drama variation of the Theseus/Ariadne myth in which they land on the wrong island and all Hellas breaks loose. “In the Beginning” describes God’s frustrated attempts to explain how the universe was created to Moses, to help him write “Genesis.” In “CAFeFIEND” a nervous Greenwich Village date takes several unexpected bounces, but ends in poetic justice.

About the Author

Tom Geisler has always been interested in fiction writing and Roman history. He graduated from Harvard College cum laude, where he studied fiction-writing under Professor Theodore Morrison and belonged to the Kirkland House Writers’ Workshop. He graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the HARVARD LAW RECORD, the student newspaper. He spent four years as a Navy JAG lawyer before working at a large New York law firm, most of his time as a litigation partner. He now teaches at the University of Connecticut and the University of New Haven and continues to write fiction. An earlier version of “The Wedding Cup” was named a semi-finalist in the 2006 Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference Competition.