Book Club

by Peter Blacklock

CAST OF CHARACTERS

2 characters:
2 female

IRENE: A resident of Cedar Meadows Retirement Home. She is enthusiastic and looking for opporunities to be involved in life. She has submitted poems to the Retirement Home poetry book and has joined the Ukulele club. She can be counted on to support just about any activity.

GISELLE: A good friend of Irene. She is looking for a challenge beyond the arts and crafts that seem to be the norm at Cedar Meadows. A bit of a snob, but a caring person at heart.

Place
A garden at the Cedar Meadows Retirement Home

Time
The present. Late in summer.

IRENE: Morning.

GISELLE: Morning.

IRENE: What’s up?

GISELLE: I’m going to start a book club. I think that’s just what this place needs.

IRENE: Great idea. I would join a book club for sure.

GISELLE: I was hoping you would. I thought you could be the communications

co-ordinator.

IRENE: That sounds like fun. What would I do?

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