Photo from Wikimedia TIME, place AND NOTES Summer vacation, 2019, on board an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic. The primary characters are the seven children, who set about developing a variety show for an evening’s entertainment onboard ship. The world has gone mad todayAnd good’s bad todayAnd black’s white todayAnd day’s night todayAnd that gent […]
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Center stage: A dead tree, with a bench on either side. A bus stop comprised of 9 or 10 chairs in a row. An abandoned building with what used to be side-by-side storefronts, numbers 666 and 668, at one time covered by rolling metal security gates, now each showing a gaping hole. Former business names
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SCENE 1 – A VIRGIN DOSE Stage right: Living room (unlit, as the scene begins). Sofa (facing a flat screen TV – the back of the TV toward the audience), three or four soft chairs, coffee table, end tables, lamps, bookcase, rug. All neater and fresher than they are later. A door at the rear
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TIME, PLACE AND RISE 21st century. Ithaca, New York. Near sunset. The stage is divided into four parts: Stage right is the combined living room/dinette area of Katherine’s house. Her small dinette table is set with plates, glasses, and silverware for two. Downstage center is open space with a hedge. Stage left is the living
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Photo from Wikimedia SCENE 1 – IN FAMILY COURT Upstage center: Courtroom, New York City Family Court, April, 2012. An elevated judge’s bench with a semi-elevated witness chair on one side, a U.S. flag on the other, a table with a chair facing the bench, and a row of chairs behind. JEFF is seated in
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