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 (60/0)
- 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 Morton4 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 Morton4 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 Morton4 months ago in Chapters
Chapter 8 of Days of A Christmas Carol Past: Non-Traditional Casting
The first non-storybook version of the Cinderella story my daughter ever saw was The Wonderful World Of Disney’s 1997 TV movie, starring Brandy as Cinderella and Whitney Houston as her Fairy Godmother. Bernadette Peters played her stepmother. Whoopi Goldberg played the prince’s mother and Victor Garber played his father. Cinderella’s stepsisters were each a different color.
By Rebecca Morton4 months ago in Chapters
