Lodestar Quarterly

Lodestar Quarterly
Figure reaching for a star Issue 8 • Winter 2003 • Featured Writer • Drama

Marla's Devotion

Linda Eisenstein

Scene 7

Scene 7

Tibetan chants and bells: one of those victorious, high-energy, cacophonous ones. In dim light, MARLA does a prostration, chanting along. Then another. Then suddenly a piercing sound.

MARLA, on the floor, has taken a hand vacuum cleaner, like a Dustbuster, out of her belt and vacuums for a bit. Then she gets up and continues.

She alternates, vacuuming whenever she sees lint, and chanting.

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Linda Eisenstein

Linda Eisenstein's plays and musicals have had over 100 productions throughout the world. Her award-winning plays include Three the Hard Way, The Names of the Beast, Marla's Devotion, Discordia, Star Wares: The Next Generation, and Rehearsing Cyrano. Her plays and monologues have been published by Dramatic Publishing and appear in anthologies by Smith & Kraus, Heinemann, Penguin, and Vintage Books. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Blithe House Quarterly, Kalliope, Whiskey Island, and Anything That Moves. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

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