Additional information
| Author | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Script Style | Full Length Play |
| Duration (mins) | 100 |
| Male Cast | 3 (+4 if using film) |
| Female Cast | 8 (+4 if using film) |
| Either | 0 |
| Total Cast | 11 |
The Memory Stone
£10.00 – £20.00
Daily life in Stoke sub Hamdon. Nothing out of the usual. People sleep, eat, argue, work, play, make love, have babies, die. Nothing that hasn’t been done over and over and over. But every so often something out of the ordinary happens. An event occurs in a house which is so shocking that the evil permeates the air, and sinks deep into the hamstone walls. People walk into that room years later and feel the chill. The owners try to sell the house but nobody will buy it. Gradually, the walls crumble; it is open for children to explore, but no children will go near it. The brambles and the ivy take over. People forget what happened there, but the stone has a long memory. The stone does not forget. “The Memory Stone” focuses on the day to day routine activities of present day family living in a former mill house, whose lives are changed when their young son brings an unusual piece of hamstone into the house. The ‘memory stone’ begins to have a dark influence over the usually cheerful and optimistic ‘Sarah’, causing the breakdown of the family relationships and events to unfold which lead her mother ‘Susilla’ to describe the stone as ‘evil’.
Synopsis
Daily life in Stoke sub Hamdon. Nothing out of the usual. People sleep, eat, argue, work, play, make love, have babies, die. Nothing that hasn’t been done over and over and over. But every so often something out of the ordinary happens. An event occurs in a house which is so shocking that the evil permeates the air, and sinks deep into the hamstone walls. People walk into that room years later and feel the chill. The owners try to sell the house but nobody will buy it. Gradually, the walls crumble; it is open for children to explore, but no children will go near it. The brambles and the ivy take over. People forget what happened there, but the stone has a long memory. The stone does not forget. “The Memory Stone” focuses on the day to day routine activities of present day family living in a former mill house, whose lives are changed when their young son brings an unusual piece of hamstone into the house. The ‘memory stone’ begins to have a dark influence over the usually cheerful and optimistic ‘Sarah’, causing the breakdown of the family relationships and events to unfold which lead her mother ‘Susilla’ to describe the stone as ‘evil’.
Cast
Characters:
The Play:
Narrator
Sarah – practical, happy, married to Quentin
Quentin – eccentric writer
Bryony – late teens – daughter of Sarah and Quentin
Tom – about 11 – will grow to be eccentric, like his father, Quentin
Ness – Sarah’s younger sister, fascinated by the supernatural
Susilla – Quentin’s mother, dignified, intelligent, a medium
Bernard – unsuccessful lover – friend of Sarah and Quentin
Penny – bossy sister – elderly lady
Fiona – sister of Penny, agrees with all that Penny says
Mary – elderly but childlike, excitable, naïve.
Kirsten – pretty – new girlfriend of Bernard
Samson the dog – boisterous
The Film: Elizabeth
Ruth
Joseph the Miller
2 x Prisoners (or more if wanted)
Parson
2 x Villagers
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Steve Davies –
29th and 30th November and 1st December 2019, The Memorial Hall, Stoke sub Hamdon, by the Stoke Performing Arts Group.