SCENE 1 – A VIRGIN DOSE Stage right: Living room (unlit, as the scene begins). Sofa (facing a flat screen TV – the back of the TV toward the audience), three or four soft chairs, coffee table, end tables, lamps, bookcase, rug. All neater and fresher than they are later. A door at the rear […]
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Photo by RODNAE Productions from Pexels Democracy is more perception than equation. To be heard.More empirical than mathematical. To be respected.More illogical* than anthropological. Know when to hold ‘em. Know when to fold ‘em.* “Enigmatic,” like “Socratic” Death of Socrates (Wikimedia) Democracy falls in colors.Country colors. City colors.Ocean-to-ocean colors. Parochial colors.Non-binary colors. Death of Cleopatra (Wikimedia) Searching for
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TIME, PLACE AND RISE 21st century. Ithaca, New York. Near sunset. The stage is divided into four parts: Stage right is the combined living room/dinette area of Katherine’s house. Her small dinette table is set with plates, glasses, and silverware for two. Downstage center is open space with a hedge. Stage left is the living
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Photo by GEORGE DESIPRIS from Pexels Let Birds (Click above) I met Linda Gregg in silence first, through Jack Gilbert, through their poetry.Later, by telephone.In my world she’s one of the great disciples of real gut, romantic poetry,herself half burned by love. A survivor of love.Its angst, its grief, its grace, its longing. Without anger or bitterness. To
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Photo from Wikimedia SCENE 1 – IN FAMILY COURT Upstage center: Courtroom, New York City Family Court, April, 2012. An elevated judge’s bench with a semi-elevated witness chair on one side, a U.S. flag on the other, a table with a chair facing the bench, and a row of chairs behind. JEFF is seated in
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