A One Act
A tiny orchestra of stringed instruments begins to resonate within the theatre from an unseen chamber. The composition is titled Darkness is magical. However, dissonant sounds begin to interrupt the harmony of the strings. The snapping of branches, human grunting noises, and mumblings can be heard. Then lights begin to emerge from the shadows, headlamps and flashlights, like tiny flashes of lightning targeted directly at select audience members’ eyes.
Thus, five actors emerge from a trail and into the scene: three tubs of water steaming and perched upon a bucolic mountainside. Some of them are breathing heavily, winded. Meanwhile, the audience can also hear the faint trickle of the water and the breeze in the trees’ branches. The trail they are emerging from is rocky and steep. They are hiking downwards from the shadows of the trees and into the middle of the scene. Dim moonlight glows in the wake of their arrival. They all have flashlights though, all of which go dark simultaneously as a woman walks to the edge of the stage…
Draft of the full one act is available upon request.
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