‘Reawakened Star’ – Jess Blake plays 5 different lead roles in a brand-new set of dramatic monologues. Each episode begins with Jess performing the story of a new person as if a microphone had been dropped down on their moment of greatest drama. The different people, places and times are underscored…
This is the dramatised true story of a kidnapped street dog from Moscow called Laika in her final moments before her death in the lower earth orbit of space. Her heart was broken by the betrayal of her first human 'friend'.
Miss Marx is an unprepared Broadway understudy at a big theatre in New York. She's been asked to tell the audience that curtain up will be delayed because the Royal Family have not arrived yet. She remembers a poem about a cat.
Mary is talking to her new-born baby, Jesus, alone for the first time in a stable in Bethlehem. She is expressing her deep fears about just that day becoming a first-time mother.