<p>For a one woman/one man cast. The setting is a remote cabin in the wilds of Alaska, and while a blizzard rages outside Henry 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, a distraught young woman who has fled all the way from Arizona to escape her impending marriage, and who bursts into the cabin still fully dressed for her wedding. Exhausted, she throws herself on Henry's mercy, but after sleeping for two solid days her vigour - and combativeness - return. Both characters, it develops, have been wounded and embittered by life, and both are refugees from so-called civilisation. 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 which allows them to break through the web of old griefs and bitter feelings which 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.</p>

Brilliant Traces

Literature & Fiction

Cindy Lou Johnson

Dramas & Plays

Josef Weinberger Plays

<p>THE STORY: 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.</p>

The Person I Once Was.

Johnson, Cindy Lou

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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