An emerging poet finds herself unwillingly enmeshed in a courtroom drama as an eccentric lawyer seeks to emancipate one of her poems from her claims of ownership. Quickly escalating from the absurd into the truly fantastic, the poet’s metaphysical exile unfolds between poetry readings, dreams, a therapist’s office, and the halls of justice.
Currently seeking a publisher for the script as well as a theatre interested in producing the play.
20,000 words, approximately 90 minutes.
Draft available upon request.
Excerpt:
Lawyer #2: Your honor, people of the court, we wish to thank you for hearing our plea in this urgent parley. Long have the mysteries of the arts remained elusive, even to those who practice them, and I say mysteries, plural, for the multiplicity of sources, pathways to and from these founts of inspiration, are beyond our reason, beyond our laws, and yet we have constructed the modern edifice as an atmosphere embedded within their cosmos. Rarely do they manifest themselves so vividly as my client has and will, beyond a parfum of their presence, and try as one might to overcome them, as man has to nature, we have always been and will always be porous, as are fish in the sea, and like birds in flight amidst clouds, their forms are obscure to us, until they are not…
