Prue grows stronger even as her world grows darker.
In despair, he joins the ghosts of Jancis and her babe in the haunted waters of the Sarn Mere. Gideon sacrifices everything-love, family, sanity- to his doomed ambition. A twisted lip is a small flaw compared to her qualities of head and heart - and her splendid Amazonian figure! Everything he learns about Prue convinces Kester that she is the wife for him. Although she is sure her "harelip" will repulse Kester and goes to great lengths to stay out of his sight, when a villager sics his vicious attack dog on Kester, Prue risks her own life to save him. When Prue first sees Kester the Weaver, she falls hopelessly in love. In time, Gideon will come to look on his own sickly Mother as a "useless mouth". Men who marry young never prosper: too many useless mouths to feed. Prue pleads with Gideon to marry Jancis right away, but Gideon won't listen. Their mothers favor the match, but Jancis' father threatens to sell her to a rich man or send her off to work on a distant farm. Gideon’s sweetheart is Jancis, Beguildy's beautiful daughter. New doors will be opened for her: the beauty of Bible-words, the science in Wizard Beguildy's spell-books, a story-reader's freedom to "live a thousand lives." Prue vows to serve her brother willingly when Gideon says that she must learn to read and keep the accounts.
He convinces his sister Prue that she can never marry because superstitious folk believe her cleft palate to be "the Devil's Mark", the sign of a witch. After his father dies in a fit of rage, young Gideon offers to be "sin eater" at Father's funeral if his mother gives him all the family property. It takes place in the early 1800s, centering on the "lightning-cursed" Sarn family in Shropshire, England.
The libretto of Precious Bane is an adaptation of the celebrated 1926 novel by Mary Character's speeches excerpted from this play are published in Ratliffe’s Millennium Monologues and students write me regularly to propose a production at their university- but so far the only schools to mount it are the University of Nebraska at Wichita, and the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg.
Subsequently the script had staged readings at Wisdom Bridge, Potomac Theater, San Francisco Dramarama, Rhode Island Playwrights, and Unicorn Theater, which I was unable to attend. Scheduled for development at the Sundance Lab in 1990 and for a premiere in LA by the Burbage Ensemble that fall, the Burbage production- excellent in previews- never opened. Church with a diverse cast, it got a rave review in the Phoenix and small but enthusiastic audiences. Written in 1988 with the help of counselors from the clinic later shot up by John Salvi workers and workshopped in the basement of Arlington St.
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6 plays by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, including "Martha Mitchell" at the Edinburgh Fringe and 4 American premieres of Celtic plays such as Rona Munro's "Bold Girls", directed by Carmel O'Reilly at Sugan Theatre.ĭozens of Horton's full length play scripts and 200 short plays and monologues are available at the web site Since 2007 Horton has been collaborating with composer Miriam Raiken-Kolb at the New Opera/ Music Theatre Initiative Advanced Lab, adapting James' Altar for the Dead, Howells' Indian Summer, and Mary Webb's Precious Bane- which has its own web site: Set in a Boston-area abortion clinic where bomb scares and death threats are part of a counselors' job description, the play charts the maturation of Emily, an idealistic young counselor who learns from her colleagues how to use gallows humour to cope with the pain of unwanted pregnancies and the stress of being under siege by pro-life fanatics. In 1990 the script set in a Boston abortion clinic, “Under Siege” (aka “Choices”) was picked for Robert Redford's Sundance Play Lab.Īs actor, Horton has performed in many other writers' new plays, in the Festivals of Boston's Playwrights Platform and elsewhere- e.g. Horton has been doing theatre "forever" - romantic comedy, supernatural tragedy, political satire, a children's musical with composer Ross Dabrusin, and a mini-opera with the multi-talented Robert Bonotto.
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