DAD enters Trinity’s bedroom, carrying his six-year-old in his arms and putting her down in bed. The light is dim. As he is covering her – DAD Nighty night. TRINITY Tell me a story, please. DAD Oh, Sweetheart, it’s too late.We got a late start tonight, and I’m tired. TRINITY You said that last night, […]
BLACKOUT In the dark, a VOICE: I’ll begin with women, and a Cathedral. The Cathedral is in Strasbourg, and it’s widely regarded to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in the world. Victor Hugo described it as a gigantic and delicate marvel. Goethe, as a sublimely towering, wide-spreading tree of God.
TIME AND PLACE 2019. New York City. A banquet room (with numerous flashbacks). SCENE 1 – Before the Banquet Stage left: A rectangular “Board of Directors” table with a number of chairs around it. PLATO and three DIRECTORS enter. General greetings, shaking of hands, slaps on shoulders, etc., before they sit down – PLATO chairing
TIME AND PLACES Spring to winter, essentially the 1940s, preserved in present day New York. Greenwich Village. A diner remarkably like the one in Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (1942); and in Scenes 3 and 4, a Greenwich Village apartment with an upstairs bedroom akin to Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles (1889): CHARACTERS TOM, 30s, the diner
SCENE 1 SKYE has just parked a shiny ’57 Chevy across from the entrance of the GREATER MUNICIPAL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, a few spaces down from RON’s worn pickup truck. RON is sitting on a bench alone outside the airport. Except for the two of them, the airport is empty. SKYE gets out of the car,
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