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"Pop the Kettle On" by Rose-Mary Harrington

 – resolved with a cup of tea

I sipped my sweet hot tea and eavesdropped on my mother.

 

Rose-Mary is originally from England. She now resides in Wilmington.  North Carolina. Rose-Mary is on the board of Port City Playwrights.  Her background is in theatre. Currently her play Six Seconds is in pre-production and will be staged in November,2023.  Rose-Mary recently received an Arts Council Grant to produce an audio recording of Six Seconds which will be available on You Tube. Rose-Mary is inspired by her five muses and nine grand muses.  They all enjoy a cup of British tea in the afternoon.

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Rose-Mary Harrington

“Pop the Kettle On” is a tribute to a tradition of England, my place of birth. I arrived in America fresh from graduating from the New College of Speech and Drama in 1970.  After fifty-three years I feel integrated in the ways and culture that is the United States of America. 

My first love is theatre and for the last twenty-three years I have been writing and submitting plays. My plays have been performed all over America and I always try to attend rehearsals and productions. This has allowed me to visit towns and cities such as Tacoma, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston and New York, where Detained my play about families caught in the quagmire of an immigration facility, received a three week off Broadway run.  Recently I recorded my play Six Seconds to be streamed on YouTube in April 2023. Six seconds is concerned with women whose lives were affected by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Six Seconds is slated for a full production at the Bucky Stein Theatre in Thalian Hall, Wilmington, North Carolina on November 3, 4 and 5, 2023. 

Writing is an integral part of my life.  I believe that my adopted homeland has allowed me to pursue the American Dream and for that I will be eternally grateful. Of course, I would be remiss if I did not mention my family and especially my husband and five adult muses who all give me inspiration and the courage to write through shared opinions, confabulations and conversations, over copious cups of tea.—Rose-Mary Harrington   

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