Nahin jaayega, aage waale se poocho. The hanky was white, with a design on the edges that was so faded by repeated washings that I could not tell what it was anymore. When she would open it, the black seeds would lie there, insignificant as if unaware of their own power. Half an hour before […]
CAST Elijah: a 22 year old young man A Nurse TIME AND LOCATION Unspecified; Unspecified (till the end) (A spot light comes up on a man in what looks like psychiatrists couch lying diagonally on down stage right. Even though he is lying down, he is looking straight up at the audience. A dull beep […]
CAST Jan: The editor of “The Herald”. Jaded and tired; 36 Julie: A journalist at “The Herald”: Passionate and anxious; 31 Secretary: A secretary, very nervous and servile; 21 The lights come up on an office. It is cluttered . A glass slab on the right side of the upstage center wall reads “The Herald” […]
(A short scene based on Artemesia Gentleschi’s “Judith and Holofernes: Series, written in iambic pentamemter) CAST The Maidservant: A young woman, heavily pregnant and a product of the society that she lives in and the way she has been treated all her life; 25 Agonisto: An important, high ranking official of what would eventually become […]