End. Of. Play.
Those three little words are so exciting to write. It means the play is done, right? RIght??
Hardly. Now the real work begins: the beta readers, the rewrites, the actor reading, more rewrites, more readers, more rewrites, and then maybe a workshop or even production somewhere. And the changes and rewrites continue. They say a playwright never finishes a play: the stage manager just has to call places.
There's Still Snow on Silver Star is set in Yacolt, Washington in the first days of September, 1902...the year of the great Yacolt Burn forest fire. That historic blaze traveled 30 miles in 36 hours and consumed over 239,000 acres of southwest Washington. (It also kickstarted the local timber industry in producing over thirteen and a half million board feet of lumber the following month, and changed Weyerhaeuser Company's business from real estate speculation into logging.)
The play follows Essie Garner, daughter of one of the first homesteaders in the Yacolt area. She's had her own brush with fire and isn't anxious to burn again. But along comes Jamie Walsh, Weyerhaeuser land buyer with a scheme to buy the Garner's well-timbered homestead out from under them, and perhaps wed Essie in the process...
Can you download the script? No. Not yet. As I mentioned, it's far from ready for prime-time. But if you're interested in helping in the process, either as a beta reader or even as an actor performing a group read, let me know. We might be able to work something out.
Watch this space for more updates.