A Play In Two Acts

(c) 1999

by

Carol Givner

How many lovers is a woman allowed to have when she grows up?

RACHEL: Just because your children have left your home

and your husband is gone

doesn't make you old.

It makes you free.

KAYLA: You're too old to remember what you don't have.

I long for the toys on the carpet and the laughter in the kitchen.

I want my husband's body wrapped around me.

I'm so lonely I can hear the beat of my own heart.