Storm Warning
By Norm Foster
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Set in cottage country in 1953, Jack Forrester, a damaged World War II vet, has retreated from life. Then one weekend he meets Emma Currie, an amphetamine-popping chart writer for a big band. Both lives will change forever as these two opposites collide.
Norm Foster
Norm Foster has written sixty plays and has been produced all over the world from Newfoundland to Australia. His most popular plays include The Melville Boys, The Ladies Foursome, Hilda’s Yard, and On A First Name Basis. He has been given the Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award for The Melville Boys, and The Motor Trade won the best new play award at the Hollywood NAACP Awards in 2012. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2017.
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Storm Warning - Norm Foster
ACT ONE SCENE 1
Time: September, 1953. A Friday.
Place: Pigeon Lake
The set is comprised of the front of two summer cabins. There is a sizable space between the two cabins. We do not need to see the cabins in their entirety, but we must at least see the front doors to both cabins. The cabin stage right has the number ‘1’ on it and the stage left cabin has the number ‘3’ on it. In front of the cabins are a couple of lawn chairs and perhaps a picnic table. As the lights come up, we see JACK Forrester seated in one of the lawn chairs. He is writing a letter. JACK is forty years old. His hair is gray. We hear JACK’s voice-over as he writes his letter.
JACK: ( over) The lake is very calm now, John, which as you know is cool wind blowing down from the northwest, causing a choppiness with swells reaching as high as two or three feet. But, right now there is no sign whatsoever of such unrest. There is barely a breeze. No waves beating the shoreline. No rustling of leaves. And this being the off season, no boat motors ripping through the afternoon air. In fact, I can’t remember when the lake has been this peaceful. This serene. This…
EMMA: ( off ) Goddamn it!! Son of a bitch!!
EMMA enters U.C. between the two cabins. She has just climbed up a hill and is a little the worse for wear. She is dragging a suitcase and carrying a briefcase, a purse and a bag of groceries.
Stupid bloody middle of nowhere bullshit! Dammit!!
JACK: Good afternoon.
EMMA: Yeah, sure it is. Is this where the Pigeon Lake Hidden Cabins are?
JACK: Yes, ma’am.
EMMA: Shit. I couldn’t find the bloody things.
JACK: Hence the name.
EMMA: Yeah, cute. I had to climb up a goddamned mountain to get here.
JACK: Well, it’s a little steep but it’s not exactly a mountain.
EMMA: Hey, don’t tell me it’s not a mountain. I passed Edmund Hilary on the way up. He begged me to turn back.
JACK: You should have used the steps.
EMMA: The what?
JACK: The steps. There’s a set of steps right over there.
Pointing off S.L..
EMMA: Steps? There’s steps?
JACK: Yes. They lead right down to the parking lot.
EMMA: Parking lot?
JACK: Yes. You didn’t see the parking lot?
EMMA: No, I just saw a sign with an arrow pointing up that said Hidden Cabins so I parked the car in a grove of trees and started hiking.
JACK: Oh, no, that arrow should be pointing to the parking lot. It shouldn’t be pointing up.
EMMA: Well, it’s pointing up.
JACK: Well, the squirrels must have been playing on it again.
EMMA: Squirrels, huh? Stupid goddamned wildlife.
JACK: I’m Jack Forrester. ( He holds out his hand to EMMA .)
EMMA: Emma Currie. ( She shakes JACK’s hand .)
JACK: Hi.
EMMA: Hi. You staying here?
JACK: Yes. Yes, I am.
EMMA: Well, nice to meet you. Sweet Jesus, that was rough. Damn.
JACK is staring at EMMA.
EMMA: What’s the matter?
JACK: Nothing. You’re…uh…nothing.
EMMA: You’re staring at me.
JACK: No, I was just…I mean, that’s quite the mouth you’ve got on you.
EMMA: What’s wrong with it? ( She puts her hand to her lips to see what’s wrong.)
JACK: No, I don’t mean the mouth itself. Your mouth is fine. I mean the language.
EMMA: Oh.
JACK: I can’t recall ever hearing that kind of language out of a lady’s mouth before.
EMMA: Well, it’s nineteen fifty-three, Jack. Women are doing a lot of shit we’ve never done before so get used to it. God, I’m winded. I thought I was in better shape than that.
JACK: Well, it is a long climb.
EMMA: Yeah, but, I was a pretty good long distance runner back in high school.
JACK: How long ago was that?
EMMA: You bein’ a smartass, Jack?
JACK: No. I’m sorry. Would you care to sit down?
EMMA: Good idea. I’ll just catch my breath and then I’ll find the proprietor and get settled in. ( She sits in one of the chairs .)
JACK: Oh, well I’m the proprietor.
EMMA: You are?
JACK: Yes.
EMMA: But, I talked to a man named…uh…what the hell was it?
JACK: Larry Cousins.
EMMA: Right, Larry Cousins.
JACK: Yeah, Larry owns the cabins. I just look after them for him in the off season. He goes down south for the winter.
EMMA: Oh. So, you’re going to live here all winter?
JACK: Uh-huh.
EMMA: Just you or do you have a family with you?
JACK: No, just me.
EMMA: Gonna be awfully lonely.
JACK: I don’t mind it.
EMMA: God, I’d go crazy up here. What would you do all winter?
JACK: Oh, I read a lot. You know, books, magazines. It’s a good way to pass the time.
EMMA: It’s a good way to pass an hour maybe, but not a whole season. Shit.
JACK: You said you were going to get settled in. You mean here?
EMMA: Yeah, I rented one of the cabins for the weekend.
JACK: Oh.
EMMA: You mean, you didn’t know?
JACK: No. No, I didn’t.
EMMA: But, if you’re the proprietor, wouldn’t you be the one who is supposed to give me the key?
JACK: Yes, I would be, but Larry didn’t call me to let me know he had someone coming.
EMMA: So, you don’t have the key?
JACK: Oh, yes,