2022
Kintsugi (A Radio Drama) pat r i c i a c a n t w e l l
Cast List Annie (Aged 97): A resident of a retirement home, present day. John (Aged 29): Her deceased husband. Scene 1: a bedroom in the retirement home. It is late evening and Annie is preparing for bed.
ACT ONE
FX: The play opens with the music of Mick Del’s orchestra playing old-time dance music and fades …
ANNIE
They keep the lights on here at night. (chuckle) They think we’re afraid of the dark. I’m not afraid of the dark John. I’ve known the dark - worn it like an old raincoat. Isn’t it strange John, sometimes in the half-light I think I see you there, over in the corner, looking down on me. Not as you would be if you’d lived, all old and wrinkled like myself, but as you were when you left, your lovely dark hair and your laugh, ahh, your laugh, I think that was the first thing I fell in love with. Do you remember when we met? Of course, you do. The whole world was in tears. We heard of these terrible things happening in Dresden and Hiroshima and places we couldn’t pronounce. But I had your laugh and we had each other, and the dark times didn’t seem so dark at all. Do you remember the day we married John? It rained all day the day before, bucketing it down. My mother put out the Child of Prague the night before and I was up at dawn, couldn’t sleep with the excitement and the sun never shone as bright as on that day.
98
The Lowell Review
