The Puppets of Maggie Meagher. A One act, One set play. Characters..: Bea (Beatrice)..Woman in mid-fifties, busy, efficient..she has a pencil behind her ear..she is writing on a sheath of paper. Scene : A meeting room, Bea stands facing the audience half-seated on a table, she has a stapled sheath of papers in her hands, there is a large table with half a dozen similar stapled sheaths of paper set at regular spaces around the table as if in expectation of more people to come to the room. Bea reads from the sheath of papers, then looks up to face the audience.. Bea : “ If you could imagine us all walking side by side toward a sunset, with our lives trailing away behind; a shadow drawn in perspective from the point of our birth. We are all facing the front so none of us really knows the substance of our neighbor’s ‘shadow’, and we can only make calculated guesses from facial expressions and mumbled half truths…Carl Jung…hrumph!…well,...