Eternal Youth Play Script by Eric Fowler

Eternal Youth Eric Fowler This drama with a touch of fantasy and comedy spans a period of twenty years in the life of Norman, a shy introverted artistic young man, repressed at childhood by a strict mother. He lives in a world of children’s fantasy plays books and cartoons, always seeking eternal youth. Unable to consummate his marriage to an actress, he loses her to a friend and attempts another relationship that ends with her death. He takes in her son who also eventually leaves him to grow old alone. Desperate, he has a vision of the future... Buy Online Read Sample Pages Synopsis Two college friends, Norman and Peter, are about to graduate. Norman is an introvert, very shy with girls due to a severe religious mother who wants him to become a priest. But Norman is artistic, drawing cartoons and writing children’s fables. Even at eighteen he is apprehensive of old age. He writes a college play about a lady traffic warden on the moon (Debbie) who falls in love with a visiting astronaut played by Peter. We see the final scene of the fantasy before Norman goes off to live in a poor bed-sit and try to become a successful author and cartoonist, getting occasional freelance work as a newspaper reporter. Too shy to date girls, he is persuaded by Peter to write a play in the hope that he might meet actresses. It is accepted and produced with Debbie (Peter’s girlfriend) in a main role. Norman falls for her and to his surprise is accepted by Debbie when he nervously proposes. They marry but Norman fails to consummate the marriage, busying himself in writing children’s stories in the belief that it will keep him young. Frustrated by the lack of attention and not being allowed to return to the stage, Debbie becomes his host at dinner parties aimed at furthering Norman’s career via his newspaper editor, Gerald and his wife, Sylvia. Debbie confides in Sylvia her frustration in the lack of physical love and her deep desire to have children, though admitting that she is kept in comfort due to Norman’s progressive career. Furious when Norman proposes adopting a child in order to fulfill her, she finally leaves him and finds love with his best friend, Peter. Now Norman has eyes for Sylvia who becomes his secretary to sort out his chaotic business affairs. Gerald mistakenly believes that his wife is having an affair with Norman and when an opportunity arises for promotion he accepts and moves away taking the eldest of their two sons to live and work with him. Sylvia, left in poor circumstances with their younger son, 15 year old Arthur, is helped by Norman but refuses to live with him. She shortly contracts cancer and dies. Norman takes in the boy, caring for him as a son, another step to remaining youthful. They rehearse part of a play together about a crocodile fitted with false teeth so that he can still enjoy jelly babies. Following Sylvia’s death Gerald returns to take Arthur away from Norman in the belief that a homosexual relationship has arisen between them. Now totally alone, middle aged and suffering writer’s block, Norman takes to drink mixed with prescribed drugs, and fearful of old age, hallucinates that he is visited by all the moon characters of his first childish play. This dream sequence concludes with Norman seeing the way ahead and sure that he can claim eternal youth via his legacy of children’s stories. Act One takes place in various locations on an open stage with alternate lit areas and minimal furniture and set pieces. Act Two is set throughout in the living room at Norman’s new flat. Period mid 1950’s to mid 1970’s. Costumes appropriate to the period plus theatrical costumes for the "On The Moon" sequence. Cast Summary Eternal Youth: 5M 3F Reviews Specifications Format: Paperback Pages: iii,50 Dimensions: A5 (148mm width x 210mm height) Publisher: Jasper Publishing Published: 2007 Language: English ISBN: 978 1 905993 52 9  Home   Advanced website with Shopping Cart

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