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CINDY LOU JOHNSON
Nationality: USA
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Blesse Brilliant Traces Moonya New Americans, The Person I Once Was, The Years, TheBlesse
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Top of PageBrilliant Traces
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the place is a remote cabin in the wilds of alaska. as a blizzard rages outside a lonely figure, Henry Harry, lies sleeping under a heap of blankets. Suddenly he is awakened by the insistent knocking of an unexpected visitor-who turns out to be Rosannah DeLuce, a distraught young woman who has fled all the way from arizona to escape her impending marriage, and who bursts into the cabin dressed in full bridal regalia. exhausted, she throws herself on Henry's mercy, but after sleeping for two days straight her vigor-and combativeness-return. Both characters, it develops, have been wounded and embittered by life, and both are refugees from so-called civilization. Thrown together in the confines of the snowbound cabin they alternately repel and attract each other as, in theatrically vivid exchanges, they explore the pain of the past and, in time, consider the possibilities of the present. In the end their very isolation proves to be the catalyst that allows them to break through the web of old griefs and bitter feelings that beset them both and to reach out for the solace and sanctuary which only hard-won understanding, self-awareness and compassion for the plight of others can bestow.
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Top of PageMoonya
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Top of PageNew Americans, The
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The great American Gold Rush
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Susan Stein Shiva Theatre, Vassar College 2002
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Top of PagePerson I Once Was, The
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Living with her over-protective older sister Mattie, Catherine (Cat) is increasingly impatient to know more of the world beyond their small Kentucky town. and she is oddly stirred by the strange young man who stands silently by the street lamp before their house, gazing up at her window. eventually the young man, Blaise, strikes up a conversation, revealing that while he is now a bag boy at the local supermarket, he has ambitions far beyond his present occupation-ambitions which will soon make him someone other than "the person he once was." Jealous and fearful, and sensing that Blaise may not be all he claims to be, Mattie warns Cat against him, leading to a confrontation which stirs up long-standing enmities between the two sisters. But, as the play reaches its quiet, gently moving conclusion, it is love which ultimately triumphs-the realization by Mattie and Cat of the strong ties which will always bind them; and, for Cat, the promise of a new and different kind of love to enrich her life and fulfill her longings.
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Top of PageYears, The
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Andrea, a young woman, is attacked by a man, Bartholomew, on her wedding day. On returning home, she tells eloise, her older sister, and Isabelle and andrew, her cousins, that her black eye and cut lip are a result of falling, thus protecting her attacker. While the family comforts Andrea, eloise is quietly dealing with her own pain: her husband, Jeffrey, has just told her that he is leaving her. the family has been plagued with loss and pain, as Andrea and eloise's Father recently died and shortly after, their mother committed suicide. andrew has a chance meeting later on the wedding day with Bartholomew and tells him the story of his cousin's mishap. Bartholomew had only mugged Andrea out of a desperation to escape to a better life and is now disturbed by this information, but decides he must move on. Thirteen years pass, and the cousins are gathered for another wedding. This time eloise is to be remarried, but she has been sent the wrong dress and food has also gone to the wrong party. That night Bartholomew, now a very successful business man, happens to save Andrea from a drunken attacker, and is shocked to discover that his mugging of her thirteen years earlier continues to colour her life. His own life then takes a downward spiral as we discover in the final scene three years later. at that time, Andrea's family suffers another loss when andrew, by now a renowned photographer, dies just before the opening of a major exhibit of his work. at the opening, Isabelle, is expected to speak, and as she sums up the relationships in her family, the remaining cousins reach a new level of understanding and forgiveness.
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