Other editions of book Idiot's Delight

This comedy has parts for 17 men and 10 women. A young English couple on their honeymoon, a German scientist, a French munitions magnate, the inscrutable Irene, and the vulgar but lovable American Harry Van are thrown together in a small winter resort in the Alps. For a short time they are forced to depend upon their own resources under threat of an air-raid, which at the last descends upon the few who are left. The play throws into ironic relief the individual human being who, having brought upon himself the obscene idiocy of wholesale destruction by war, wakes up to find that he can do nothing more than make a futile gesture against the forces he has set in action

Idiot's Delight is a 1936 play written by American playwright Robert E. Sherwood.The setting is the Hotel Monte Gabriel, in the Italian Alps. The play takes place during a winter afternoon, that evening, and the next afternoon. The hotel guests are trapped at the hotel at the beginning of a world war. The guests are a British couple on their honeymoon, and people from Germany, France, and America.