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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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
