Windward Review Volume 19 (2021): Empathy and Entropy

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Nick HoneShadow and Ash: A 10 Minute PlayCAST SIZE: 6-7FATHERDesperate to keep his family alive in the face of insurmountable odds,he will do everything he can. His love sustains him, but there is so muchdespair. How can he continue?ELDERLYA long-term resident of the area, he is as stout and unmoving as the treesin the forest. He has weathered ages coming and going and plans to endure.It’s all he can doCHILDDisconnected from her world, she stands alone where she should feelsafe. The fear that accompanies this solitude is clear, as is her anger. Sheis youth, she is a fighter.REPORTERThe world she expected is not the one she ended up in. Her curiosity anddedication have taken her far, but she is tired.FIREFIGHTERA soldier in a never-ending war, the weight of the world sits on theirshoulders. They do what they can to bear it, but it has left them numb.DANCERSCan be performed with one or two dancers depending on situation.SETTING: The end of the world. Or the place where memories go when youdon’t think about them. Purgatory. Oregon. California. Too many placesTIME: Now, and the future.The sound of the burn, a constant and powerful crackling fills the space.Smoke and fire fill the back of the theatre with a dusky orange glow.Silhouetted against the glow are five people seated onstage, staggeredand scattered. They are draped in darkness; their features in black. Thesound of a newscaster giving a report on the severity of the fire begins,after a moment it overlaps with another report on worsening weatherconditions. And then another on the progress of the climate’s descentinto chaos. During this cacophony, a single dancer runs onstage and begina slow modern dance. They are running, trying to escape something,and yet cannot make any progress. What do they fear, and why they can’tleave? They come to a moment of stillness, and the news reports stop. Alow, almost imperceptible cello begins to play a mournful solo. This continuesunderneath the action, swelling and quieting to emphasize loss,and the motions of the dancers. This cello accompanies it all, the goodand the bad, but must never be the focus until the very end. A beam oflight pierces the smoke, illuminating FIREFIGHTER sitting in his chair.FIREFIGHTERThere has been something like 100 billion people to have ever lived. 100 billionsouls. How many of them are remembered? There are whole generationsthat exist only in darkness now. As shadows of their former selves, you know?All because their memory has died along with them.-FATHER is illuminated. He stands from his chair. As each person speaks, theircolumn of light fades away and allows the next to erupt.FATHERA life lived and then erased. Gone to a place where it can never be retrieved. Ifa person’s memory dies, did they ever exist?-The dancer exhales, and move quickly, then freeze. Light strikes CHILD, stillseatedWindward Review: Vol. 19 36
CHILDWhere do the untold stories of forgotten souls go?The dancer pulses, we see REPORTER.REPORTERWhen we lose their memories, are they gone? Or just somewhere else?-A final light strikes ELDERLYELDERLYA world all their own, full of shadows. Shadows and ash-The dancer melts away, and a new beam of light pierces the smoke, illuminatingFATHER. He stands from his chair. These beams are sustained.FATHERI think we lost everything. We barely made it out.-Another beam of light lances through the smoke and illuminates ELDERLY,also standingELDERLYThis, my house, this was a wedding gift from my ma to my pa, back a long oldtime ago.-Another beam illuminates CHILDCHILDThis is my first trip up here, to see the farm, to see my dad-Another beam illuminates REPORTERREPORTERWhen I flew in, you could uh, you couldn’t see the ground.-And finally the last light illuminates FIREFIGHTERFIREFIGHTERThe fires started to die down on the 6th dayALLWhere do the stories go?-The people onstage are all lit, and they seem to know the other are there.They don’t see each other, but there is a sort of desperate need to communicate.Their lines begin to almost layer on top of the others. The light beginsto slowly get brighter, and the sound of the fire gets louderFATHERI think we lost everything. We barely made it out.ELDERLYThis, my house, this was a wedding gift from my ma to my pa, back a long oldtime ago.REPORTERWhen I flew in, you could uh, you couldn’t see the ground.CHILDThis is my first trip up here, to see the farm, to see my dadFIREFIGHTERThe fires started to die down on the 6th day-The stage is filled with light and sound. ALL begin speaking simultaneously.FATHERI think we lost everything. We barely made it out.ELDERLYThis, my house, this was a wedding gift from my ma to my pa, back a long oldtime ago.37Empathy / Entropy
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