Image from Wikimedia I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.What hours, O what black hours we have spentThis night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!And more must, in yet longer light’s delay. – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sonnet TIME AND PLACE Present. A park. CHARACTERS JACK DAWKINS, a child. SIR, Jack’s […]
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Photo by Plato Terentev from Pexels TIME AND PLACE Present. A park.Stage right or stage left: Kai’s story of Koi, the mice, the farmer, and the poor old man can be pantomimed concurrently using actors in all black or all white, and puppets. CHARACTERS JACK DAWKINS, a child. SIR, Jack’s father. KAI, a story-teller. SCENE
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Photo by Eva Bronzini from Pexels The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell TIME AND PLACE Present. A park.Stage right or stage left: Kai’s story of the wood fairy and the dragon can be pantomimed concurrently
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Photo by Alice Castro from Pexels Tyger Tyger, burning bright,In the forests of the night;What immortal hand or eye,Could frame thy fearful symmetry?– William Blake, Songs of Experience O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fallFrightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheapMay who ne’er hung there.– Gerard Manley Hopkins, No worst, there is none TIME
Photo by Thuanny Gantuss from Pexels PLACE A room of quieting colors and soothing art (including several pictures of rivers) with a row of chairs facing a single chair (its back to the audience). CHARACTERS SAM, female, a leader of a few words.ANNE, female.BLAKE, female.CAROLE, female.DAWN, female.ERIC, male. MALE VOICE (offstage). SCENE 1 Darkness. MALE
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