Biweekly Theater Writing Challenge #11.4 - A flashback from The Tailor of Riddling Way

Flashbacks are going to be an important part of The Tailor. The events and injustices of the past that were never revealed or made right drive the story in the modern day, and I want to depict those characters living out the events in a way that slowly reveals the entire picture. Here is a scene involving two of the Loring sisters, seventeen-year-old Bethany and twenty-five-year-old Emma, consulting a local skilled dressmaker by the name of Abigail Barrows, mother to our hero Tom, back during the end years of World War I.

As a side note, I am having a hard time casting some of my female roles. Miss Bethany I know I want to be played by niobien; I think she'd have just the right sound for the role, and I also really want to direct her in a speaking part. But while I know the pool of talented actresses I am going to be picking from, I am having a hard time deciding who should play the rest of my female roles. I have never had such casting indecision in my life. Perhaps I should have people read for them, to see who actually does sound best. Frankly they're all good enough that I could just assign them randomly and the piece would come out, but casting is a process dear to my heart and I'd like to make the best match I can. I guess I'm spoiled for choice by having people with too broad a range of talent!

( The Loring girls meet with the dressmaker Mrs. Barrows... )