FLIGHT OF THE DOVE
Full-Length Stage Play
2 Characters
1 Man. 1 Woman
Simple Set
135 pages
Existential Romantic Comedy.
A madhouse struggle within a poetic memory.
“The dreams of yesterday will become the faded memories of tomorrow.”
Peter and Belinda have been married for many years, their children are grown, and they are left together with a very high, large Pile of Baggage in the middle of their Living room. A huge overbearing pile of memories that define their past together, while feeling trapped in a long relationship they believe is over, but cannot seem to escape from.
Their trappings are motivated by their memories of a life which has defined their identities, and influenced profoundly complex contradictions within them individually and in their relationship together.
Outside is a madhouse – everyone is fighting in the streets, in offices, in homes, innocent children have grown into thugs, lost souls, and violent hoodlums, and whenever either of them leaves they come back beat up, clothes torn off, arms and faces scratched, hair a mess sticking up, as if they fought for their lives to buy a loaf of bread. While in their home, another battleground exists in the pursuit of breaking free from the order they have strived for to survive but that has made them feel trapped and helpless to change within the lager paradigm creating all of this existential chaos.
The Dove is a fragile, poetic image throughout the play, that exists in a poem Peter wrote for Belinda when they were young, that lead to them falling deeply in love. A time in their past when they possessed innocence and openness, now juxtaposed against the exhaustion of a life of striving, disappointments, contending with brutal nature and mechanistic culture they exist within.
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Full-Length Stage Play
2 Characters
1 Man. 1 Woman
Simple Set
135 pages
Existential Romantic Comedy.
A madhouse struggle within a poetic memory.
“The dreams of yesterday will become the faded memories of tomorrow.”
Peter and Belinda have been married for many years, their children are grown, and they are left together with a very high, large Pile of Baggage in the middle of their Living room. A huge overbearing pile of memories that define their past together, while feeling trapped in a long relationship they believe is over, but cannot seem to escape from.
Their trappings are motivated by their memories of a life which has defined their identities, and influenced profoundly complex contradictions within them individually and in their relationship together.
Outside is a madhouse – everyone is fighting in the streets, in offices, in homes, innocent children have grown into thugs, lost souls, and violent hoodlums, and whenever either of them leaves they come back beat up, clothes torn off, arms and faces scratched, hair a mess sticking up, as if they fought for their lives to buy a loaf of bread. While in their home, another battleground exists in the pursuit of breaking free from the order they have strived for to survive but that has made them feel trapped and helpless to change within the lager paradigm creating all of this existential chaos.
The Dove is a fragile, poetic image throughout the play, that exists in a poem Peter wrote for Belinda when they were young, that lead to them falling deeply in love. A time in their past when they possessed innocence and openness, now juxtaposed against the exhaustion of a life of striving, disappointments, contending with brutal nature and mechanistic culture they exist within.
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