Plays

36. streetwise in America

Photo by Leroy Skalstad from Pexels Two weeks later (in an autumn of the 2020’s). Upstage center is a window. At the rise a body is seen jumping out of it, away from the audience. JOE (offstage) Rattler? RATTLER (offstage) Joe? Is that you? JOE (offstage) I found her. RATTLER (offstage) O my God.You found her? JOE (offstage) […]

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34. streetwise and invisible

Photo by Nicholas Githiri from Pexels There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. – The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939) The following spring (in the 2020’s). MOLLY DEE is alone, doing some simple gardening outside her micro house, next to a woods on the grounds of a convent. GRIFF enters,

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33. streetwise to home

Photo by Rachel Claire from Pexels When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me…Speaking words of wisdom, let it be. Let it Be, the Beatles (1970) Late summer, 2020’s. In the far corner of a yard outside a convent JAKE (wearing a straw hat) and RATTLER (with a limp – a young dog

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32. streetwise mid humanity

Photo by Ivan Babydov from Pexels Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout rain! …I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness …You owe me no subscription: then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave.                              -King Lear Summer in the 2020’s. In a yard some distance outside a convent three homeless men and one homeless woman: 

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