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Remember Meby F J Willett |
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CAST The play has a cast of 9. Four male and five female as follows. Present: Past: MILLIE can double with either BETA or ZETA. THE SET The T.V. room of a nursing home. There are a number of recliner rockers set in an arc around the T.V. set. There are ferns on stands, lit from above on a darkened stage the ferns will look like jungle palms. The few pictures on the wall are obvious prints. If you've seen one nursing home you've seen them all. NOTES ON THE SCRIPT The play reads and looks complex, but it is essentially very simple. It consists of two interleaved stories. In the present is the story of BETH and TINGAL being interviewed by DEBBIE. The other story is the history of the Second World War as recalled first by BETH and later by TINGAL. In a way both BETH and TINGAL are "seeing" their past acted out before them, and we the audience are "seeing" what BETH and TINGAL are telling DEBBIE. Both TINGAL and BETH therefore react to the events being portrayed by the young JOE and LIZ. LIZ's pain is BETH's pain. LIZ's happiness is BETH's also. Ditto for JOE and TINGAL. It should be clear that the other characters from the present, MILLIE and DEBBIE, are unable to see the "ghosts", for the "ghosts" here are naught but embodied memories. On the other hand the shades of the past, JOE and LIZ, have no point of contact with the present at all. The stage is an operating theatre, a beach, a pier. The chairs are an operating table, a rock, a crate as the situation demands. The characters from the past neither see nor hear nor react to the characters from the present. The past and present should be further seperated by the way in which the characters are costumed. Rich and natural for the present characters and pale and stylised for the 'ghosts'. N.B. The Japanese in the script is only indicative and needs to be checked before a production. |
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