Playwright Portrait, Anne Washburn Excerpt from Apparition

Anne Washburn 2006
copyright Peter Bellamy 2010 all rights reserved.

Excerpt from

APPARITION, An Uneasy Play of the Underknown

A

anyhow you're trundling along and then...

B

suddenly out from the mist

E

it all seems hopeless.

C

From out of the darkness of the forest looms suddenly the Weevil Tender!

A

(and there was a horrid shriek)

C

There is a rustling in the scratchy branches and then horribly from out of the middle of those prickly foliages pops…the Weevil Tender!

E

(and the screams echo and echo throughout the primeval forest

and then the sun sets)

A

with a terrible plop and a sizzle. Into the cold ocean.

All hear a sound off right.