One Acts Opened

Well, our first performance of our evening of One-Act Plays, otherwise known as a Directors' Workshop, went off very well.

In the first play, "The Patient," a squabbling family is gathered at the bedside of one of its members who has suffered a fall and is paralyzed. She is trying to communicate, with the help of a gadget that lights up and buzzes when she uses her remaining movement to press a button. One of Jim's former students is in that one.

"Trifles," the second play, is also about a murder investigation. The neighbour has come over and found the farmer's wife sitting in the kitchen, and the farmer dead in his bed with a rope around his neck. The wife has been arrested and the sheriff, the neighbour and the District Attorney have all come out to investigate, bringing a couple of wives to get some things to take to the accused woman. The DA wants to find something to tie her to the crime, but can't. The men are all looking in the wrong place. The two women find the answers while looking through the "trifles" in the kitchen.

The third play, called "Sepulchre of Songs," is quite complex. A teenager who has lost both arms and legs struggles to find a reason to live. A therapist struggles with his own demons. It's a romance that was never meant to be.

There was a pretty good crowd tonight, in spite of the cold weather, and Gala was in full swing when I left. Too tired and cold to want to party, but elated that the performance went well.