 | | eScript Perusal: $1.99 | | eScript Package: $20.00 (Includes print rights for cast and crew) | | First Performance Royalty: $20.00 | | Each Additional Performance Royalty: $20.00 | | Video Rights: $10.00 | | | Type: One Act Play | | Genre: Drama | | Theme: Readers' Theatre | | Running Time: 30 minutes | | Speaking Cast: 1 female, 1 male, 2 total cast | | Title Includes: Mature Theme |
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| | AUTHOR NOTES PRODUCTIONS | | | | | Synopsis | | Where were you January 13, 1942 when the Martin Institute burned down?This was the first question on the survey they had sent to my childhood home at 97 Sycamore Street some 53 years after the Institutes’ timbers had been reduced to ash, the bricks had blackened to blend in with the night and the embers had glared back at me, like the end of Emory’s cigarette that morning, from under the watchful stained glass eyes of the martyrs in the church windows across the way. There were other questions on the page as well. All properly spaced and numerically sequenced. This wasn’t meant to be a test, just a testimonial of sorts. The location of my whereabouts that day has affected my life far more intimately than any loss of pencil or paper, notebook or chalkboard ever could. I meant to record my answers so as not to lose what few details I could successfully recall, but arthritis had crippled my fingers and then the thought occurred to me...what would I write down anyway? Or more to the point...what would I confess to, if indeed I could bear to write it all?I picked up the small mason jar of watermelon seeds from the mantle and phoned the paper and requested a private recording of my oral history. Breaking a 53 year silence proved to be harder than I thought. For me it meant closing up just one of many holes in my life...and a chance to let go of a knot I tied 53 years ago.So begins this powerful tale of love, guilt, and secrets that will leave every audience with something to think about. | | | Details: | | Mature Theme |
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