Jenna McNabb
A Synopsis
Jenna McNabb is a two-act stage drama based on a short story with
the same title. Paul R. Meredith is the writer of both.
Jenna McNabb is a chemical buyer in an industrial setting
when she first meets Stuart Williams, a sales manager for a chemical
manufacturing company. The first meeting ends amicably. Later the same day,
Stuart and Jenna meet by accident in a local pub eatery. They chat a bit and
get to know one another a little better. Stuart boldly asks Jenna for a dinner
date for the following Saturday.
At dinner
Saturday evening, in a setting that includes music, Stuart asks Jenna to dance;
she accepts, which leads to a rapid increase in sensual feelings between them.
At the end of the evening, they cannot tear themselves from one another, and an
unplanned romantic encounter happens at Jenna’s home.
The two
young people become closer and closer over two years, often trading sleepover
nights at their homes. Marriage is lightly discussed, but few personal issues
have ever been spoken of between them. Then one morning as Stuart prepares to
leave Jenna for an out-of-town business trip, Jenna receives a strange phone
call that changes everything between them. Jenna is extremely upset emotionally
by the call and refuses to discuss it with Stuart until later. This infuriates
him, and as he leaves Jenna’s house, he seems to feel the relationship is over.
He senses she feels the same.
Stuart made
a decision to stay away from Jenna for quite some time. He is confused about
what he should do, so he starts dating other women. He eventually discovers he
has no feelings for any other woman except for Jenna. Stuart decides to visit
her again to discuss their situation, but upon arriving at her home, he learns
she has moved out and sold her home. He tries every way he can to learn where
Jenna has moved. Nobody can or will tell him.
He realizes
Jenna can be the only woman for him. For the next twenty-five years Stuart
searched in every way he knew for the love of his life, Jenna McNabb, but he is
unsuccessful. He employs a private detective, but that turns out badly also.
Years
later, a broken man at age fifty-three, Stuart receives a surprise visit from
an old friend at his apartment. Charlie has looked him up to see how he was
doing. It has been many years since they were last together. Charlie can’t
believe his eyes when he sees what a broken and unhealthy man Stuart has
become. Stuart eventually tells Charlie about Jenna’s disappearance and his
lost cause search for her.
Charlie
gives Stuart some great advice—to get another private investigator to locate
Jenna. Stuart takes the advice and employs a new private investigator and tells him all he knows
about Jenna. The PI tells Stuart it should not be too difficult to locate her,
and true to his word, within a month, he is ready to discuss the results of his
search...... I had to end the synopsis here in order to not give away the shocking surprise ending.
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