Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy from Pexels and Wikimedia TIME AND PLACE Present. Nighttime, followed by a daytime visit to the Museum of Greek History. Unfinished. At the rise, far stage right, stands an abandoned, two-story house, on the outside of which is a flight of wooden stairs, leading up to the second floor. Center stage is Antonía’s and […]
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Photo by Joanne Adela Low from Pexels TIME AND PLACE Present. School auditorium. Five large (very large) monitors rest on a table at the front. DR. RIVER We are meeting like this,as I said yesterday,so that we can express our grief,and shock,and disbelief,and questions. And, yes, maybe anger.And I know the biggest question, besides “Why?” isWhat do guns
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Photo by Roger Brown from Pexels SCENE 1 – GRENDEL Center stage (in front of a screen/scrim on which are hung papier-mâché bodies of dead birds) a white sheet covers a large object. GRENDEL, clad as the man-eating monster of the same name from Beowulf, enters in light dimmed like a shroud of darkness around him. GRENDEL [turning
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Photo: The Illumination of a Dull Star (PublicDomainPicture.net) TIME AND PLACE 2030s (or so). An observatory in California. CHARACTERS DR. ZO MARIE CURIE, female.DR. ALBERTA EINSTEIN, female.PROFESSOR VIKTOR WOOLF, male. A Voice, over the radio.Voices, from Curie’s cellphone speaker. Center stage: CURIE, EINSTEIN, and WOOLF are busily preparing the Catcher (which an outside observer might
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Photo from Wikimedia CHARATERS NADIA BOULANGER (16 September 1887 to 22 October 1979), French composer and conductor. Likely the greatest music teacher of all time. Possibly the most influential teacher since Socrates, as one leading composer has said of her. In that capacity Boulanger has influenced generations of music, most notably in the United States
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