Mentor Wonders: A One Act Play
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Mentor Wonders is a poetic drama about volunteer mentoring in a South Texas bilingual public school. During a volunteer Orientation at a San Antonio bilingual public school, new mentoring volunteers wonder about safety, while staff and veteran mentors share stories about their interactions with students. These conversations are occasionally inte
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Mentor Wonders - Catherine A Lee
Mentor Wonders
Copyright © 2022 by Catherine Lee
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
First Printing, 2023
by Cheshire Cat Composition
This creative writing project was funded in part by
a 2022 Individual Artist grant by the City of San Antonio,
Department of Arts & Culture.
PRINT ISBN 978-0-9833483-1-3
0-9833483-1-6
E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-9833483-2-0
Mentor Wonders
A One Act Play Revised Edition
Catherine Lee
Cheshire Cat Composition
This writing project is the culmination
of a lifetime’s worth of personal mentoring
by educators Frank Marbach and Percy E. Johnston;
writer tedjoans; multimedia artists James Sanders and David Cort;
and dramatic actor/directors,
Tony Plana, Carlos Lacamara and,
most especially,
Bill Gundry
Contents
Dedication
Development Notes
Cast of Characters
The Setting, The Time
Author's Notes
Foreword
1
Dramatic Script
Scene 1
Locked, Loaded, Dreadfully Drilled
Scene 2
If Walls Could Talk
Scene 3
Alien Bunny
Scene 4
Hippo Face Off
Scene 5
Missing Piece (For Jason)
2
Introduction to the Poems
Age Difference
Messy Business
Laces Rule
Cake Mix Stories
Cobalt: Keeping What Passed Present
’Rithmetic: Fractions, Mysteries, Curiosities
Like Dominos
Crescendo
When This Mentor Gets Puzzled
Keeping Score
Acknowledgments
Stage with Cafeteria
Stage with Mentor Room
About The Author
Development Notes
Mentor Wonders was developed between January-October 2022 during a series of Zoom-recorded rehearsals by actors from San Antonio’s theater community including members of the Seniors In Play Readers’ Theater. The project was funded in part by a grant from the City of San Antonio, Department of Arts & Culture.
Final script dress rehearsal segments were directed by Angela Otey, recorded between August-October 2022 and assembled into a Dramatic Reading video. Backgrounds selection, costume consultation, and video storyboard creation by Catherine Lee. Original music composed by Cecil Reenald Carter. Video post-production by James E Sanders Jr. The Mentor Wonders Dramatic Reading video premiered on Nov. 18, 2022 at Woodlawn Pointe, San Antonio, Texas, and was subsequently released online. The cast, in order of appearance, consisted of:
Terry Lake ..... Adele Herzstein
Carlos Castillo ..... Eduardo C. Garza
Jason Peterson ..... Robert M. Moritz
Sandra Kenney ..... Angela Otey
Barbara Minton ..... H. B. Robinson
Linda Hale ..... Mildred Hilbricht
Joey Green ..... Rosemary Livar
Pearl Houston, Ph.D. ..... Mary Williams
Cast of Characters
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
TERRY LAKE, staff Community Coordinator at Confianza Academy, manages program, assigns mentors, and schedules group events.
CARLOS CASTILLO, veteran mentor, one of the few bilingual mentors, works at a research institute. He was paired with Tomas Fuentes beginning last year. Their close male-centric bond helped Tomas
compensate for his papa’s absence.
JASON PETERSON, prospective mentoring volunteer, is an architect at a large firm. Detail-oriented to a fault, he interrupts with difficult questions, to compare this program to others he’s considering.
POETA TAMBIÉN (optional cast) is a bilingual Spanish reader of Dreamscape
poems with music background as daydreams that interrupt meeting dialog. If only one poet is cast,
this character has priority.
SANDRA KENNEY is a retired educator of special needs children who has been mentoring since the program started nine years ago. She helps coordinate and recruit mentors.
BARBARA MINTON, veteran mentor, works in book publishing. She mentored Angela several years ago for the Alien Bunny creative project.
LINDA HALE, veteran mentor, also bilingual in Spanish, is a retired school nurse who has mentored Beryl Fuentes for three years. She helps Beryl deal with family instability caused by her mother’s severe illness.
JOEY GREEN is younger, a prospective new mentor. An ophthalmologic technician, this character can be either male or female.
PEARL HOUSTON, Ph.D. has been Principal at Confianza Academy for the past five years. She instituted incentives to improve attendance and
graduation rates, including mentoring, to counter her school’s