TIME and PLACE Nineteenth Century. Monticello (Virginia). A room with books, a writing desk and chair. CHARACTERS JEFFERSON enters at the rise. Center stage: A black CHESS BOX, tall and wide enough to hold a black female actor inside, comfortably. On top of the box is a large chessboard and set, White pieces toward downstage, […]
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A spacious dungeon room (lit in red) with a pool of water between two tall, Doric pillars. At the rise JOHN is bathing a MAN, kneeling beside JOHN in the pool. Throughout the scene MEN continue to enter and leave, each being bathed, on his knees. A cot is off to the side. SALOME enters
Blue is the light of the soul.Mortals have two lights to protect:White-gold, the light of love and sex, and blue.With two golden threads, and Mozart. Bonnie spoke sandwich.P B and J. Mac and grilled cheese. Fried eggs…. Coneys.Marigold, her mother, handled the high waters of single parenthood well enough.With some help from her father, Joel,
The flight of a heron piercing solitude. Thoughts of Love.A Mozart symphony. Nietzsche and Shakespeare. Pondering how,If we are free of the future, why do we sense its finger always upon our pulse?Yeats’ poem to Irish actress Maud Gonne (after her refusal of marriage)Spiraling in my mind: I would that we were, my beloved, white
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1793. I don’t believe in God; but I do believe in God’s love.And look. My eyeshades are wet from my tears.I could actually see in my mind that consciousness lives on.The important thing is,
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