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Queen of Swords – the Tarot play by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Queen of Swords – the Tarot play by Alysse Aallyn(Lights up on The Library Basement Stacks at Dead Lake Community College a mini set with bookcase and elderly woman – MRS PREECE – wearing coke bottle glasses perched atop library ladder, putting books away. ) MRS PREECEWhy are all these students so freakishly tall? I’m going to kill myself, one of those days, trying…
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Queen of Swords – the Tarot play by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Queen of Swords – the Tarot play by Alysse AallynWHITNEY (Thinking aloud) A demon’s real name… (Silence while WHITNEY thinks. Decision.) WHITNEY Be not afraid. (She resumes hammering on the door.) Charmayne! Charmayne! Charmayne! CHARMAYNE (Seductively from the door open only a slit) I thought we had an agreement, Whitney. WHITNEY (Bravely) I’d like you to tell my fortune. Give me a reading. You know. With the cards. CHARMAYNE (Instantly…
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Queen of Swords – the Tarot Play by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Queen of Swords – the Tarot Play by Alysse AallynWHITNEY (Getting up her nerve…calling after CHARMAYNE …too late) Like you speak French! (Goes to sit disconsolately on a boulder.) This is MY story and I’m not letting her tell it. (A beachily dressed; closely shaved man with a metal detector comes up the beach slowly. Investigating.) WHITNEY Hey! Don’t you know this is private property? EIGHT Only to the…
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Queen of Swords – the Tarot Play by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Queen of Swords – the Tarot Play by Alysse AallynCHARACTERS (4)Charmayne: a beautiful, powerful woman just at the drop off point into middle ageWhitney: a stubborn, determined girl on the cusp of adulthood who doesn’t give a damn about her looksEight: mysterious male beachcomber, late 20’sThe Guardians of the Past: (can be played by a single actor)Dr Quantreau: elderly male in fishing regaliaMrs. Preece:…
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The Demon Lover – a play for two voices by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: The Demon Lover – a play for two voices by Alysse AallynScene I EVAN I like women willful, lateFor appointments,fond of showy clothes and society, vague, drifting, dreamy,yet of course all of that is tiresome.But I don’t like competence, intellectual honesty, intelligent sensuality.Women keep turning on me saying,“You don’t love me.”What good is it to have been so happywhen it ends so painfully?I am a “crook”,…
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Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse AallynThe Rose – Vulnerability: If This Card Chooses You – You wake up trembling. Are you helpless in your dreams? Do you dream of children, of your own childhood? In Warrior Oracle, the rose represents the soft evanescence of youth when the merest thumbprint of emphasis can leave eternal impressions. As the emblem of beauty,…
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Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse AallynWildflowers – Beauty; If This Card Chooses You – Some shy glory is awaiting your consideration. It could be your own Self. Are your dreams so beautiful you regret waking up? Do you imagine possessing great beauty yourself, caressing another’s gorgeous flesh, or having a dream lover turn those diamond eyes on you? Do you…
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