Alligator Mansion

By Lea Ann Douglas

Juliet and her family spend their lives in the dinning room, watched over by the mysterious painter in the corner. Outside, the alligator waits for them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lea Ann Douglas
• Release date: May 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311567109

Lea Ann Douglas

Lea Ann Douglas is a playwright, poet, and essayist. Her plays Alligator Mansion and The Neophyte have been seen in Charlottesville, New York, Los Angeles, and London; her short stories and political essays have appeared in numerous online and print magazines and she is a regular columnist for TReehouse Magazine. Lea Ann is best known for creating the culture, philosophy and language of the World of the Sidhe and its colorful heroine Sionne Angbarad. Lea Ann currently teaches English at Old Dominion University and playwriting and storytelling at the Muse Writers Studio.

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Alligator Mansion

A play in one act

Lea Ann Douglas

Jei’Ala Press * Tir Na N’og

Copyright © 2015 Lea Ann Douglas

All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Douglas, Lea Ann

Alligator Mansion/Lea Ann Douglas,--1st ed.

Title

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ISBN-13: 978-1514106273

ISBN-10: 1514106272

Jei’Ala Press, Norfolk, Virginia, 23507

Alligator Mansion

By Lea Ann Douglas

Characters

Mother

Father

Juliet—their daughter

The Uncle

Giovanni Arnolfini

Gus—Juliet’s husband?

A small room is taken up almost entirely by an enormous dining table. Behind the table is a life-sized copy of Jan Van Eyck’s painting The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami. The portrait of Giovanni is missing from the painting, and in front of the painting, where he would be standing in the portrait, stands a man in the exact costume and posture of the character from the original painting. Above the painting is a narrow screen, the sort that is used at an opera for translations. Projected on the screen is the word: