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    Cry the Loon and the Avian Connection: Two Plays
    Cry the Loon and the Avian Connection: Two Plays
    Cry the Loon and the Avian Connection: Two Plays
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    Cry the Loon and the Avian Connection: Two Plays

    By Robert Manns

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    Cry the Loon is a domestic tragedy laid in the author's own hometown.

    The Avian Connection is a comical fantasy dealing with an ornithologist's belief that man and bird evolved from the same source, the warm-blooded archaeopteryx.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateNov 4, 2003
    ISBN9781469715254
    Cry the Loon and the Avian Connection: Two Plays
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    Robert Manns

    Robert Manns was born in Detroit; spent six years in New York, where he received his first productions; and later moved to Florida and eventually Atlanta. He wrote his first play when he was 19, his first poem when he was 21. He has taught dramaturgy at Emory University in Atlanta and, while director of Callanwolde Art Institure in that city, initiated the poetry readings still held today. Even before serving as field representative for the National Audubon Society, wildlife and the environment had solidly manifested themselves in his writing.

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      Cry the Loon and the Avian Connection - Robert Manns

      Cry the Loon

      &

      The Avian Connection

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      Two Plays

      Robert Manns

      iUniverse, Inc.

      New York Lincoln Shanghai

      Cry the Loon & The Avian Connection

      Two Plays

      All Rights Reserved © 2003 by Robert Manns

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher.

      iUniverse, Inc.

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      ISBN: 0-595-29956-3

      ISBN: 978-1-4697-1525-4 (ebook)

      Robert Manns

      Contents

      Cry the Loon

      SCENE ONE

      SCENE TWO

      SCENE THREE

      SCENE FOUR

      The Avian Connection

      Preface

      Author’s Note

      SCENE ONE

      SCENE TWO

      SCENE THREE

      SCENE FOUR

      SCENE FIVE

      Cry the Loon

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      a play

      Cast

      Time

      The beginning years of the 21st century, about 2002

      Place

      As in directions for scene one

      SCENE ONE

      Camden, Maine. A summer home porch facing the waters of Lake Megunticook. Porch furniture is assembled for informality and comfort, still with a disposition toward some formality. The scope of the porch confirms wealth and security. Five wide steps lead down to the lawn leading to seawall and water.

      Spice Staples, aunt to Marian and Donald, a still attractive woman of sixty-some and considerable makeup, occupies a porch chair behind a small table with scotch bottle, a glass and napkins. She comfortably listens to the conversation coming from inside the house, mixed with the cries of gulls over the lake. The following is vocal only until Donald enters from the house through door at the audience left.

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