Photo by Ennie Horvath from Pexels Soft!Lamb.Tenderness.Let tenderness. In a space beyond green pastures, hills, valleys, and still watersIn a space beyond all thatIs peace.Comfort.Security. Let peace.Let comfort.Let security. Who knows the whiskers?Between wolf and shepherd’s dog.Between husbands.
Photo by Thuanny Gantuss from Pexels PLACE A room of quieting colors and soothing art (including several pictures of rivers) with a row of chairs facing a single chair (its back to the audience). CHARACTERS SAM, female, a leader of a few words.ANNE, female.BLAKE, female.CAROLE, female.DAWN, female.ERIC, male. MALE VOICE (offstage). SCENE 1 Darkness. MALE
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Photo by Ron Lach from Pexels TIME AND PLACE Late spring or early summer, noticed by trees and flowers in bloom.A path. Hills, maybe even mountains, in the distance. CHARACTERS KNOWN, a man in somewhat later years with a backpack.UNKNOWN, a woman in somewhat later years with a backpack. SCENE KNOWN and UNKNOWN are walking
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Image from Wikimedia The best things, he always used to say, are put together of a night and vanish with the morning. What people call the floating world.– Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda … and woke up with me.– Rita Hayworth TIME AND
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