The Rose of Charleswood
lofloto for Elizabeth "Betty" Gibson
Sarah's Mother. please use [text in these brackets as direction], only read "lines in quotations"
pitch is optional to actor, cadence must be motherly and confidently "submissive".
From novel; "She was slender, but curvaceous with dark brown eyes and long silky brown hair which she kept pinned up in a bun. She was considered to be quite attractive. She was born in Regina, but at the tender age of four lost both her parents and was sent to an orphanage. A couple from Charleswood adopted her and gave her a good life. It was a farming life, full of chores such as helping to plant seeds, gather the eggs, feed the animals, and clean out their pens. She was very bubbly and seemed to enjoy every aspect of her life. She discovered books at the age of twelve and once every couple of months her father would take her into Winnipeg where he would buy her books. The ones she cherished the most were her two volumes of Little Women. She identified with Jo the most, but instead of wanting to write, she wanted to be an actress. She would sing and dance, putting on plays that she had made up so she could perform them for friends and relatives. As a young woman, she helped to form the Elmhurst Players. They would do readings and perform plays and musical numbers. While performing, she met Dad. She took one look at him and knew she would be marrying him."
[Betty is telling Sarah the story of her birth, her husband Wayne suggests naming your newborn daughter Sarah]
"That's perfect, I replied happily. I can't wait to get her home to meet her big brother, I said as I looked lovingly into your tiny face."
[finish line with a gentle, dramatic sigh of delight][Betty and Wayne are just finding out about Sarah's unwed pregnancy. It's 1945, and post war depression on a farm. huge no-no. Betty has asked how a nurse could let this happen. She loves her daughter but she's so scared it may come across as anger, with cracks of fear.]
"We must do something, we must. We'll have to send her to a home for unwed mothers, ohh no!!!!!"
[it's described that she's 'wailing'][Betty's eldest son, Tommy, Brings home his handsome and well spoken friend Jack over for dinner, as he leaves she 'gushes']
"What a nice boy"