The Novelist
A JASON YOUNG FILM
The Mentor - Karen Glinda
Karen Glinda's ordeal is the solo scene where she has a one-sided phone conversation with her boyfriend, Tom, who terminates the relationship. She fears that she is going to grow old and spiritually lonely in her middle years.
Karen Glinda is a woman on the run from her past: a divorce, sacked from her job without reference, upheaval and relocation to a new country. The voices in her head allow us inside her mind in order to play out the audio-drama that is driving her forward. She types up her novel about a world she hopes she has left behind: the emptiness of a divorce; the identity of a divorcee, and her desire for remarriage. But external forces beyond her control have prevented her from being published on both sides of the ocean. The only place where her novel can find a resting place is in her mind.
Putting her ego aside, she transfers her ambition to write a novel onto Jerry Downing by grooming him into a novelist through his gradual involvement with her. Like Jerry, she can't go it alone, and so together they find salvation in each other.
Karen's Ordeal
Karen's Radio Play
