Lodestar Quarterly

Issue 4 • Winter 2002 • Featured Writer • Drama

Half-Light Dances

Brian Thorstenson

Characters, Setting, Production Notes

CHARACTERS

Winifred
An Anthropologist.

Daryl
A Docent.

Derek
Daryl's dancing partner.

Diamond
A Diva.

TIME

Now.

PLACE

An abandoned ballroom.

NOTES

A line usually follows the one immediately before it, but when one character starts speaking before the other has finished, the point of interruption is marked /.

The "docent" events should have a quality of performance different from the rest of the play, particularly at the beginning before they start succumbing to Winifred's presence. A delineation in lighting might prove to be the most effective.

"Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances."
-- Robert Hass

"in small beginnings our varied loves are based."
-- Thom Gunn

For Will and Thierry

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Brian Thorstenson lives in San Francisco. His first play, Heading South, received a Bay Area Critics Circle Nomination and was part of the 1996 Berkeley Art Centers' performance series. His play Summerland was selected for the 2000 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the 2000 Z Festival of New Performance, and opened in New York City at Wings Theatre Company. The play is included in the anthology Plays and Playwrights 2002. His poetry has been published in Transfer and Six Thousand Five Hundred. Brian has received writing fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Arts Program and Blue Mountain Center. He currently is a lecturer in playwriting at San Francisco State University and Santa Clara University.

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