shadow’s play by James Morehead
December 23, 2011
shadow’s play
the shadow enters on cue behind the viewers seated row on row hands placed shoulders still following players' spot lit forms and projected well-worn phrases out and over the darkened theater the shadow floats unseen between a couple's hands entwined a young child tugging with whispered questions and a solitary critic quietly scribbling the shadow drifts delicately along the stage's edge invisible to the spotlight's tracking beam beneath illuminated twinkles of drifting dust but the stage manager suspicious and watchful from a booth tucked high above adjusts her squinting glasses searching while the apparition plays tricks by the stage's edge the shadow sensing her drifts stage right tucks behind a gilded throne adorned with plastic jewels casting deceptive sparkles no more real than a shadow's touch and with that the shadow melts into the stage among the words and phrases masquerade and dancers foiled fighters' tears and fool's laughter her voice long since hidden and forgotten her steps no longer beholden to blocking her beating heart just a trick of light that vanishes in curtained darkness
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Excellent theatrical interpretation.
I like this one!! Ok they’re all pretty good but this one really paints a cool picture! Nice!