Tag: Leave
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The Only One (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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He’s Slipping Away (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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Graveside Thoughts (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP This is the speech that begins the play. Read on… “If I’d done everything I could, everything I should, this boy wouldn’t be in the ground.” (A gravestone. ANNE, a woman in her 50s.) ANNE This isn’t my grave. There are days I wish it was. Days I think it should be. A…
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Leave (or, The Surface of the World)
(a drama of “don’t ask, don’t tell” in two acts) Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian husband who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because…