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TITLE (EDIT)
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DESCRIPTION
The play, The Shoe Box, is about second chances. Fancy O'Brien wants to be a good mother and works her self to death on a poor dirt farm in the Appalachia of the South, during the early 1940's. She wants her daughters to think well of her and wants to forget her early history when she was a loose woman. She wants to forget that her father, Pap, killed her lover Jimmy Miller. She wants to forget that his brother, Johnny, is the father of her daughter Wendy.
Johnny wants a second chance to get to know his daughter Wendy. He has done time in prison.
Fancy has warned him to stay away from her daughter. One night, drunk, Johnny comes to their home banging on the door. Fancy grabs the gun and shoots him dead.
Mam, her mother, says that she has to think quick for the police will be there soon. Fancy grabs the banjo away from Sammy, a simple but gifted artist, and shoves the gun into his hands. Sammy is wrongly sent to prison for Johnny's murder, so Fancy can be there to see that her daughters survive the hard day to day existence on the poor dirt farm.
There are two scenes in the shoe box. Wendy makes these of clippings from magazines and pastes them in the box. She dreams of a nice home one day.
In the last scene of the play, the characters are in the shoe box.
FANCY
Sammy, I want to tell you a lot of things.
SAMMY
After they hang me.
FANCY
Yes, Sammy, after they hang you. Then, maybe, we can all find some rest.
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Cast of Characters
WENDY O'BRIEN - Wendy lives in the Appalacia of the early 1940's South. Although malnourished, she has a strong spirit and imagination. She decorates shoe boxes with beautiful furnishings cut from magazines. She hopes that one day she will live in a beautiful home.
CHARLENE O'BRIEN - Charlene is Wendy's sister. She is no dreamer. She shows a poverty of spirit as surely as the poverty that is in her life.
FANCY O'BRIEN/YOUNG FANCY O'BRIEN - Fancy is determined to give her daughters a decent life. She works her self to exhaustion on the poor family farm. She is determined to forget her loose past and make a decent life for her daughters and Sammy, her adopted son.
SAMMY O'BRIEN - Sammy is Fancy's adopted son. He is a simple, but gifted musician and can play the banjo wonderfully.
PAP - Pap O'Brien is Fancy's father. He killed her lover Jimmey Miller. He appears in the play as a ghost still interested in his family.
MAM - Mam is Fancy's mother and Pap's wife. She went crazy after Pap killed Jimmy Miller and then Jimmuy's father shot Pap to death. She blames Fancy for Pap's death.
JOHNNY MILLER/YOUNG JOHNNY MILLER - Johnny Miller was in love with Fancy O'Brien. He is Wendy's father. He wants a second chance to get to know Wendy. Fearing that he will tell Wendy the truth, Fancy shoots him to death.
MRS. MILLER - Johnny's mother
MRS. TAYLOR - Mrs. Taylor owns the Country Store. She gives Wendy magazines so that she may decorate her shoe boxes.
MRS. LEEDS - A store customer.
SHERIFF BIXBY - He is a former lover of Fancy O'Brien. There was a rivary between he and Johnny Miller for Fancy's affection. He arrested Johnny for theft and sent him to prison.
GUEST - A refined lady guest who was invited to the shoe box.
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AUTHOR
Teresa Ann Salyer |
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
I enjoy writing poetry and have poems published in several anthologies. I am interested in writing screenplays. My screenplay, Raphael The Redemption won Best Fantasy Adventure in the New York Independent International Film and Video Festival in September, 2001. I am interested in writing for the theatre as well.
I participated in the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska this June.
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AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (2)
Jimsonweed (Plays) An ancient Native American Indian artifact is stolen from Dr. Ace Solana in New Mexico at an archaeological dig in New Mexico. The robber sells the statue to Attie Datura, the owner of an occult ... [13,204 words] [Comedy]
Raphael The Redemption (Screenplays) Raphael The Redemption won Best Fantasy Adventure in the New York Independent International Film and Video Festival in September, 2001. [17,197 words] [Action]
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STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
October 2002 |
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