Dear Sister Teresa: Historical Screenplay, Romance

By Amy Heebner

This fictional screenplay was inspired by the life and writings of Saint Teresa of Avila, the great teacher, writer and mystic who lived in Spain during the 16th Century.

There is no historical record of an earthly marriage in Teresas life. Historical record documents an intense correspondence between Teresa and another monastic, St. John of the Cross, but there is no record of any courtship or sexual relationship between them.

Thus, the love story in this script is fiction, a speculation about what might have happened if her circumstances had differed from historical record.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543452983

Amy Heebner

About the writer: Amy Heebner is a playwright, screenwriter and scholar who currently (as of 2017) resides in New York City with Ruedi, her Swiss-American husband. He is an architectural draftsman, photographer and actor, in addition to his employment in private industry. Ms. Heebner has worked in theater and post-secondary education in the U.S. and Switzerland. Electronic mail: [e-mail]. The writer owes a special kind of gratitude to her parents, her husband, and John Andrews of the Shakespeare Guild and English-Speaking Union. They have each given me support and encouragement.

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Copyright © 2018 by Amy Heebner.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2017914739

ISBN:   Hardcover   978-1-5434-5296-9

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Contents

Dear Sister Teresa, Fictional Drama..

Play reading

Cast Of Characters

Screenplay.

Play reading program, Dramatists Guild, NY, NY, Oct. 29, 2013.

Notes on character, staging for directors, actors.

Deleted scenes.

References

Acknowledgements

Descriptors:

Screenplay, Christian drama, Spanish culture.

About The Writer

Dear Sister Teresa, by A. Santay (pseudonym for Amy L. Heebner). Screenplay copyright 2010 by Amy L. Heebner (New York, New York). Script drafted in 2009, ending revised in Jan., 2010.

All rights reserved by writer, including rights to stage play, novel, etc. Copyright 2010 by Amy L. Heebner (New York, New York). Script drafted in 2009, ending revised in Jan., 2010.

Copyright 2012 (stage play) by Amy L. Heebner (New York, New York, U.S.A. All rights reserved by writer.

The script is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events are either inventions of the writer’s imagination or used in a fictitious way. Resemblances to historical persons are based on secondary sources. Dialogue, most action and many characters are inventions of the writer.

Professionals and amateurs are warned that prior written permission by the author must be secured for production of this script in any form, via film, theater, radio, television, any broadcast or print medium, videodisc, videotape, CD-ROM or any other variety of computer technology, and that a purchase price and/or royalty may be charged. All rights in all media, including print (novel, novella, short story, etc.), are strictly reserved by the author.

Special emphasis is placed upon the question of public readings, for which prior written permission must be secured from the writer. The writer would also like to be notified of private readings.

All inquiries regarding rights should be directed in writing to Amy L. Heebner at the e-mail address and telephone below. Her private address is also listed. Requests to purchase copies of the script or essay should be directed to Amy L. Heebner at the electronic mail address or telephone number listed here.

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DEAR SISTER TERESA

, FICTIONAL DRAMA..

Fictional screenplay set in Spain, 1561.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Prologue, the present day

ACTOR or ACTRESS

WRITER

Avila, Spain, 1561

Sister TERESA, Catholic nun/teacher, attractive woman in her 50s. Protagonist.

Sister BEATRICE.

Sister LUISA, a young nun in her twenties.

ROSA,