Photo by Ron Lach from Pexels O Moon, Earth wanderer in ancient silver white,you’ve sown a poet’s truth.My Feminine in childhood, pregnant, graying years,my barefoot in the night,you filled my eyes with mystery in Maiden youth,owned love, then kissed my tears. TIME AND PLACE Present. The house where SIR and JACK live. CHARACTERS JACK DAWKINS, […]
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Photo by Amirali Beige O Western Wind when wilt thou blowDown that the small rain down can rain?Christ! That my love were in my armsand I in my bed again. – Anon. Early 16th century TIME AND PLACE 1948 (and half a lifetime later). A small Midwestern town (and a little beyond). CHARACTERS WRITER,
Photo by murat esibatir from Pexels SCENE 1 LYDIA stands in a pillory, center stage, facing the audience – a placard hanging below her head reads: Ugly Conjures The Devil. ANNA is standing beside her. SIR TRIVIUS and JOHNSON enter, walking across the stage (Covent Garden). They stop to look at LYDIA. SIR TRIVIUS makes
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Photo from Wikimedia AT THE RISE Center stage: A young flower girl, wearing near-rags and an apron, selling tulips out of a brown wicker basket which she holds on her arm.From early day to nighttime, a change in scenery upstage takes her from: Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro to Moscow to Saint Petersburg to
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Image from Wikimedia TIME Present day delusional. PLACE In the Georgetown brownstone of Robert and Patricia Greene, and, notionally, in the final scene, Mersea Island, Essex, England. CHARACTERS SENATOR ROBERT (“Bud”) GREENE, 55, a U.S. Senator and former university mathematics professor. Senator Greene – 15 years on with a heart transplant – is now endowed
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