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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Photo by Ron Lach from Pexels TIME AND PLACE Late spring or early summer, noticed by trees and flowers in bloom.A path. Hills, maybe even mountains, in the distance. CHARACTERS KNOWN, a man in somewhat later years with a backpack.UNKNOWN, a woman in somewhat later years with a backpack. SCENE KNOWN and UNKNOWN are walking
Photo by Miriam Espacio from Pexels TIME AND PLACE Present.A table for two in the elegant dining room of a London private club.An open fire is discreetly burning in the corner.On the table is a vase filled with roses (red, matching the drapes, rug, and Kate’s dress and shoes). CHARACTERS KATE.WILLIAM BUTLER, Kate’s husband. SCENE
Image from Wikimedia The best things, he always used to say, are put together of a night and vanish with the morning. What people call the floating world.– Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda … and woke up with me.– Rita Hayworth TIME AND
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