The Forgotten Bear - Penny Knobel-Besa

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Résumé :
It's Christmas Eve and Teddy Bear is sadly still sitting on the shelf; he wants to be a Christmas Present, but no one bought him. He falls off the shelf onto a wooden rocking horse, a lay away of the salesclerk, Penny. Everyone laughs pushing the horse giving the bear a ride. The horse, Alabama feels special because his name is carved on his belly Made in Alabama. When the Penny picks up Alabama, she takes Bear along throwing him in the back seat where he can see Christmas out the window standing on his tippy toes as they drive. Penny struggles to carry Alabama inside, decorates her tree and forgets about the bear. Teddy watches from the car and tries to be happy that at least he saw Christmas, his eyes get wet, his nose shiny, and his smile down on one corner when he tried to smile. Next morning the horse that's a present for Penny's Godchild Lacey doesn't look right. She remembers the bear riding him, looks everywhere finally remembers and rushes out to the car grabs him like a football running and plops him on the horse just as Lacey arrives and see the bear. Is Teddy Bear, my present and the Rocking Horse? They whisper together and she announces that he loves her and wants to take her for a ride on Alabama. Teddy is so thrilled because if she understands what he says that means she loves him. He was never the forgotten bear again.

Biographie:
Penny Knobel-Besa originally from Baltimore, Maryland began writing during her youth winning essay and poetry contests but her interest in theatre took her in a different direction as an actress and then as director/producer. She obtained a degree in theatre from Towson University, a Master's Degree from University of Baltimore and post graduate studies in directing at Yale University and at Johns Hopkins writing program. She founded Maryland Theatre Arts Company (MTA Company) began writing scenes for musical reviews and then a children's musical, Under Your Pillow which included seven songs she wrote. She directed the Off-Broadway production in New York where it was picked up for development as a motion picture. Now living in Allegany County, she moved the MTA Company to Cumberland, Maryland where she wrote and produced play adaptations from various classics, Alice In Wonderland, Secret Garden, and Little Women. She was the first to bring an old art deco movie hall The Embassy, back to theatre, with the Governor's wife cutting the ribbon for the opening of her musical play versions of , Coppelia and Peter and The Wolf. Later she premiered another original play, Dream Pirates one day in the life Robert Louis Stevenson as an imaginative child and on the last day of his life. She then retired from theatre to pursue photography having been named Maryland Photographer of the Year, she shows in Europe and on the east coast from Maine to Louisiana winning awards. She is published in several literary journals. In March 2022 she wrote, produced and directed a new play a musical drama, Almost Heaven (as in West Virginia) proving you can't retire from theatre. This is her first published book which was written for her Godchild Lacy....

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It's Christmas Eve and Teddy Bear is sadly still sitting on the shelf...