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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DOMINICK (off stage) Each afternoon I watched her coming back through the hot stony field after swimming, the sea light behind her, and the huge sky on the other side of that.I felt like Jack Gilbert, doing that. Falling, and failing in love. HELEN enters, stage left, with the GREEK WOMAN and carrying an opened
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Summer. Manhattan. A young, homeless FEMALE (maybe redhead) enters, pulling her belongings (on wheels) behind her. She stops to search a trash can for some treasure, finds none, and walks on. Part way down the block she is stopped by a female TV REPORTER, accompanied by her male cameraman. REPORTER Miss? May we talk with
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TIME AND PLACE 1991. A patch of beach in Southern California toward sunset. EILEE, barefoot, in a two-piece bathing suit. Sand. Water. A surfboard. Sounds of waves rolling in. In the discretion of the Director the ocean may be positioned at the back, side, or front of the stage. If at the front of the
