Negative Space: A Play in One Act

by Bourne

A powerful play in one act, voices in a small town illustrate how an adolescent girl is understood by her contemporaries. Raw and violent, the reader will emerge from this work a changed person, reflecting on how individuals struggle and how their struggles are interpreted by society.

Genres: Plays

53 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 8, 2015

About the author

Husband and wife team, Andrea & Steve Bourne, write, paint, and develop various media projects together.

Steve has 18 years of experience as a custom software and app developer. His prototyping process has been used in dozens of apps, websites, and desktop software focused on marketing, personal finance, productivity, engineering, science, and data visualization applications. He has authored chapters and numerous other publications from blogs to books.

Andrea has two decades of experience as an author, educator, editor, higher education administrator, course developer, and fine artist. She has extensive experience in community development, analytics, data mining, and marketing.

The Bournes unapologetic foodies. They love baseball games and Broadway shows and crawfish boils and great books and speakeasies. Most of all, they love to travel and to try new things.

Reviews

[Gianluca Cameron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Genuinely fantastic use of dialogue repetition throughout and I appreciated how the ending injected some complexity into characters I previously thought were caricatured. Would be great to see this performed.

[Mark Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

Both tragic and moving.