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Anatomy Of A Play III

Jun 26, 2014
by Caroline Miller
"Woman On The Scarlet Beast", Post5 Theatre, Somewhere in Time
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My last entry concerning my play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast  (Blog 5/15/14)  ended with my description of how I leapt from my chair when the Executive Director of Post5 Theatre invited me to meet  him.  Arriving at the designated location, I was greeted by a tall, golden-haired young man with blue eyes and chiseled features. ” Eat your heart out,”  George Clooney,  I thought, looking at him.

We shook hands and sat down to discuss my play: its theme, source of the idea, number of characters and so forth.  I told him the story was based on the lives of real people, principally, a grandmother, mother and daughter, each of whom was desperate to be loved.   

 The person opposite me was young enough to be my grandson, yet I felt a rapport with him.  The film, Somewhere in Time flickered through my thoughts.  Was it possible that we had met in some other life? When I recalled how carelessly I’d dialed the theater’s number, expecting nothing and discovering I was talking to someone who could help, I couldn’t decided if I was experiencing a moment of pure, dumb luck or if fate’s hand had guided me. 

 During the interview, my companion listened to what I had to say without interruption.  Naturally, I was gratified.  But when he asked to read my play as we said our goodbyes, I was so elated that when buffeted by a gust of wind as I stepped from the theater, I imagined I was flying. Such was my irrational exuberance.

 By the time I got home, however, my natural pessimism had kicked in.  Woman on the Scarlet Beast was a play set in the 1960s.  The young man I had just talked with had been born 25 years later.  How could he embrace a time he didn’t know or a subject which focused on women? 

 I began to think I was a fool to hope.  Yet even while I cursed my folly another voice urged me forward. Why, it asked, did I always play the villain to my aspirations?   Had I not failed many times before and lived?  What did I fear?  I had nothing to lose but opportunity. 

 Though it was the weaker voice, I heeded the second.  Hitting the send button, I flushed my play into the void and prepared to wait.  

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published four novels

  • Ballet Noir
  • Trompe l’Oeil
  • Gothic Spring
  • Heart Land

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