Spinning
by Leah Cooper
Performed by Christina Baldwin, Casey Lewis, Gabriel Peñaloza-Hernandez, and Monica Scott
Herald performed by Karen Wiese-Thompson
Directed by snem DeSellier
Sound design, engineering, editing and mixing by Peter Morrow
This play is suitable for all audiences
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The Setting:
The Landmark Center looks like a fairy tale castle. Inside is a grand open atrium, stairways of marble and brass railing. Upstairs there are doors and doors that open into mysterious places, many are doorways into the past. One of them, on the second floor, is the Gallery of Wood Art.
Synopsis:
At the Gallery of Wood Art in the Landmark Center, she found an invitation to spin a top and transcend a world that sometimes feels like too much.
Poems excerpted:
Darkness by Lord George Gordon Byron
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Bible (English Standard Version), Ecclesiastes 1:9
An Eternity by Archibald MacLeish
There is no Life or Death by Mina Loy
Hope is the thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
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