Lodestar Quarterly

Lodestar Quarterly
Figure reaching for a star Issue 4 • Winter 2002 • Featured Writer • Drama

Half-Light Dances

Brian Thorstenson

1
Characters, Setting, Production Notes

2
Winifred Arrives

3
A beginning: geography lesson

4
A beginning: night

5
A beginning: unexpected singing

6
Some beginnings: detour, rain, cigarettes

7
Walking one line

8
A beginning: leaping and leaning

9
A beginning: up for the view

10
A beginning: descent

11
Sorting it out

12
A beginning: you decide

13
The beginning

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Brian Thorstenson

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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