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Press Release for
If Only I Had More Time
By
Marion Scherer
Considered one of the most
moving and educational pieces ever performed for Livingston Hospice, this
one-act play talks openly about end-of-life issues, the grief process and taking
spiritual responsibility for your illness.
Through the use of poetry,
drama and improvisation this play weaves its story around a visit to a cemetery
to pay respects to a lost loved one. Two women meet, one young, the other
mature and as their two different backgrounds clash they each begin to realize
that life can deal many blows but how you handle them can make all the
difference.
As the older woman senses a
deep tragedy within the silence of the young girl she tries to draw her out, get
her to talk about her pain. The young girl lashes out complaining that she
doesn’t want to feel grief, she has no time to suffer the pain of losing a loved
one, and most of all, she’s tired of hearing about pain and loss. “ I don’t want
to know about the emptiness of grief, or have to live with just a memory of
someone. I don’t want to wake up in the morning and find out my best friend has
been killed in an auto accident.”
The older woman can only
comfort her by saying that everyone gets whacked by life sooner or later. And
that if you don’t acknowledge grief: “Your life can become engulfed by a dark
cloud--if you don’t move beyond it the dark cloud can envelope you, become you
and eventually spit you out as--cancer--heart attacks--emotional as well as
physical diseases.”
When the young girl finally
opens up and tells her story an emotionally intense message begins to emerge.
“We do have the ephemeral ability to heal each other.”
45 minutes long with audience discussion afterwards.
For further information or
to book a performance please contact:
Marion Scherer
Actress/Director/Author
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