Photo by Ryutaro Tsukata from Pexels AT THE RISE The uncorking of a dozen or so of the world’s finest red wines and champagnes. Both seen and heard. Interspersed among an elegant array of meat and fish, spread along a buffet table covered by luxurious linens running the width of the stage (entirely under a white satin canopy). […]
Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy from Pexels and Wikimedia TIME AND PLACE Present. Nighttime, followed by a daytime visit to the Museum of Greek History. Unfinished. At the rise, far stage right, stands an abandoned, two-story house, on the outside of which is a flight of wooden stairs, leading up to the second floor. Center stage is Antonía’s and
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Photo by Joanne Adela Low from Pexels TIME AND PLACE Present. School auditorium. Five large (very large) monitors rest on a table at the front. DR. RIVER We are meeting like this,as I said yesterday,so that we can express our grief,and shock,and disbelief,and questions. And, yes, maybe anger.And I know the biggest question, besides “Why?” isWhat do guns
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Photo by Roger Brown from Pexels SCENE 1 – GRENDEL Center stage (in front of a screen/scrim on which are hung papier-mâché bodies of dead birds) a white sheet covers a large object. GRENDEL, clad as the man-eating monster of the same name from Beowulf, enters in light dimmed like a shroud of darkness around him. GRENDEL [turning
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Photo: The Illumination of a Dull Star (PublicDomainPicture.net) TIME AND PLACE 2030s (or so). An observatory in California. CHARACTERS DR. ZO MARIE CURIE, female.DR. ALBERTA EINSTEIN, female.PROFESSOR VIKTOR WOOLF, male. A Voice, over the radio.Voices, from Curie’s cellphone speaker. Center stage: CURIE, EINSTEIN, and WOOLF are busily preparing the Catcher (which an outside observer might
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