Rebecca Morton
Bio
An older Gen X-er, my childhood was surrounded by theatre people. My adulthood has been surrounded by children, first my students, then my own, and now more students! You can also find me on Medium here: https://medium.com/@becklesjm
Stories (61/0)
- Top Story - April 2024
- Runner-Up in Inverse Challenge
A Roadside Spoon and Walkers
The following is a stainless steel spoon's-eye account of a real-life event. My child and I saw this spoon on the ground every day on our walk to the school bus stop for many months, but we never knew how it got there or why it stayed there so long. Here, at last, is the spoon's story:
By Rebecca Morton3 months ago in Fiction
Chapter 11 of Days of A Christmas Carol Past, My Thirty Year Relationship With Victorian Ghosts
My first baby was born just a few months after a staged reading of my third place winning play and from that day on, my attention was completely focused on her. At the time I felt I had no choice. As a newborn, she was intense.
By Rebecca Morton5 months ago in Chapters
Chapter 10 of Days of A Christmas Carol Past, My Thirty Year Relationship With Victorian Ghosts
Five years before Les Miserables, and one year before Cats, the biggest show from London to open on Broadway wasn’t a musical. It was an eight-and-a-half- hour stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
By Rebecca Morton5 months ago in Chapters
Chapter 9 of Days of A Christmas Carol Past: My Thirty Year Relationship With Victorian Ghosts
I have to admit I wish the previous chapter had been longer, if only to devote more time to the man who played my “Papa” in the stage production of A Christmas Carol that I acted in. I was trying to stay focused on the theme of non-traditional casting, but I’m concerned that it might have made my brief inclusion of openly gay, (according to Wikipedia), African American actor, Franklyn Seales, look like tokenism.
By Rebecca Morton5 months ago in Chapters