The First Voice (Richard Adrian Dorr) whispers the secret dreams of
the sleeping townsfolk to the audience:
Only you can hear and see,
behind the eyes of the sleepers, the movements and countries and mazes
and rainbows and tunes and wishes and flight and fall and despairs and
big seas of their dreams. From where you are, you can hear their dreams...
(Lycoming College, Pennsylvania)
The First Voice (Richard Adrian Dorr) again, at a lighter moment!
(Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center, NYC)
Captain Cat (James MacAaron) remembers his lusty days at sea:
No, I'LL take the mulatto, by God, who's captain here? Parlez-vous jig jig, madame?
(13th Street Theatre, NYC)
Proper schoolteacher Gossamer Beynon (Jennifer London) and lusty pirate
Sinbad Sailors (Danny O Snow) want each other, but remain apart:
Gossamer Beynon, why are you so proud?
(13th Street Theatre, NYC)
Mr. Pugh (Robertson Carricart) dreams of poisoning Mrs. Pugh (Janet Geist):
Here's your nice tea, dear...
(Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center, NYC)
The Reverend Eli Jenkins (Mark Cronogue) is the son of Esau, also a minister, "who,
undogcollared by 'his little weakness,' was scythed to the bone one
harvest by mistake when sleeping, with his weakness, in the corn."
Poor Dad... grieves The Reverend Eli ... to die of drink ... and agriculture.
(Lycoming College, Pennsylvania)
Dai Bread, the baker, has two wives (Jeneane Schmidt and Janet Geist): a "comfy" wife for the daytime,
and a "gypsy" wife for the night. His gypsy wife looks into a crystal ball,
as his comfy wife looks on.
I can't see any more, exclaims the gypsy. There's great clouds blowing...
(Lycoming College, Pennsylvania)
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