Photo by CARLOSCRUZ ARTEGRAFIA from Pexels Once every few years, even now … I find it impossible to bear. – Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible TIME AND PLACE Present time. In a courtroom. CHARACTERS ARTHUR, male, 62, wearing a blue quilted jacket with zipper pockets. EMILY, female, 18, dressed in jeans, a white shirt, and […]
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Photo by hello aesthe from Pexels TIME AND PLACE Inside each child’s imagination. The North Sea; Scotland; and beyond. CHARACTERS and SPECIAL PROPS Storyteller(s), female. Ginger, a young girl, pre-11 (non-speaking part). Actors in costume as an owl, a cat, a spoon, carrots and pomegranates (non-speaking parts). A teddy bear; two whales; Bong-Trees; and a
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Photo by Josh Hild from Pexels (Paying homage to the poet Linda Gregg) Let the mare in the fieldin the summer morning mistmake you whinny. Make you cometo the fence and whinny. Let birds. – Linda Gregg, Let Birds, 1994 The privacy of them had a river in it.Had our universe in it. And the
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Image from Wikimedia Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life. I wish I’d never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I’m glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would
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Image from Wikimedia TIME AND PLACE 2024. Crossland University, Grahamstead, Surrey, England. SCENE 1 WILLIAMS is walking by himself when he happens to see AURORA (also by herself) picking grass in a small garden outside a Crossland University lecture hall, and putting it in tissue paper. He approaches her. WILLIAMS [indicating] For your pet rabbit?
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