Upon A Sea of Dreams: A Journey on the Titanic

It is the night of April 14, In a tiny third class cabin Emma struggles to quiet her infant brother and calm her younger sisters.

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The young girls think life on the Titanic is a game. But the playful air changes when the ship suddenly stops moving and sirens blast. The American boy says his deck is flooded and the ship is sinking. They have to get out now. Do the girls stay put or leave? And if they leave, how do they get past the locked gate?

On April 14, the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank into the frigid waters of the Atlantic. Upon a Sea of Dreams dramatizes this historical event by bringing to life a family in a tiny third class cabin. The characters come first in Upon a Sea of Dreams. Why did you write this play? I teach creative writing at a creative and performing arts school.

I was working with a 6th grade playwriting class, and I wanted to demonstrate that you can write a play about anything, set anywhere. That night, I wrote an opening scene to share with the students as a model. We all enjoyed it so much, that I just continued writing the story. Someone in his or her family objected to their sailing aboard the new ship, "because so many things can go wrong on a maiden voyage. Their luggage, in the charge of one of their servants, Edwin Wheeler , had already been sent to Southampton and placed aboard.

There was no time to remove the luggage. Wheeler, booked as a second-class passenger, stayed aboard and was lost. The United States ambassador to France, Mr. Robert Bacon, had reserved passage aboard Titanic for himself, his wife and daughter. But their departure was delayed by the tardy arrival of the new ambassador, Myron T.

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The Bacon family sailed April 20 on the maiden voyage of the S. France — an event saddened by Titanic's loss. After consulting accommodation charts, several people canceled their Titanic passages when they discovered their cabins to be unsatisfactory: Clifford Wilson and their daughters Dorothy and Edith canceled their Titanic bookings and sailed aboard Rotterdam instead.

O'Brien of Cleveland, Ohio, in Ireland to settle a lawsuit they had instigated, planned to sail for America from Queenstown aboard Titanic. Sixty years later, on her th birthday in , Mrs. O'Brien recalled how their business lasted longer than expected and she and her husband switched to a later ship. O'Brien but her 14 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren were also grateful, in , of the change.

Henry Clay Frick canceled their booking of cabin B when Mrs. Frick hurt her ankle at Madeira while on a cruise aboard Adriatic. Nesbitt, his wife and five children had planned to sail to New York aboard the Majestic. When this ship's sailing was canceled by the coal strike, Thomas Cook's Paris agents assured the Nesbitts that the new ship Titanic would take her passengers on her April 10th maiden voyage.

Arriving at London, the Rev. Nesbitt unexpectedly learned of a serious illness that had befallen Mrs. Several days of leisurely sightseeing were abruptly set aside. It was now essential that the family cross the Atlantic as soon as possible to reach the ailing man's side.

After considerable trouble, caused by the Good Friday closure of the Cunard offices, they were able to make a last-minute booking on the Cunard liner Carmania , which had a Saturday, April 6 departure date. Traveling by the Cunard boat train to Liverpool where they hastily boarded Carmania , the Nesbitt family reached New York late in the afternoon of April 14, only to read in the following day's newspapers of the loss at sea of the liner on which they had planned to sail.

Had not the merest chance enabled them to sail aboard Carmania, the Nesbitts would have been "automatically" transferred from Majestic to Titanic and might have suffered the privations of the disaster.

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On exhibit at Liverpool's Merseyside Maritime Museum is a yellowed envelope whose black-and-red printing announces that it contains "First Class Passenger Ticket per Steamship Because Reverend Holden's wife was taken ill, their tickets, once contained in this unique envelope, were never used.

The reverend framed the envelope with the inscription, "Who Redeemeth Thy Life from Destruction" and retained it for years after the sinking. Also written in the same fading ink at the envelope's top right edge, is the name of the passenger for whom the ticket was intended: Having received his ticket, the Rev.

Holden — vicar of St. Paul's Church, Portman Square, London — was preparing for his departure to America aboard Titanic to speak at the Christian Conservation Congress a six-day convention opening at Carnegie Hall April 20 when his plans were interrupted by his wife's sudden illness. On April 9, one day before sailing, the Rev.

Holden postponed his trip to stay at his wife's side. He returned his ticket, but retained the envelope in which it has been delivered. The envelope was subsequently framed, and in gratitude to God for his miraculous escape, Rev. Holden penned in his own hand on the matte within the frame, an expression of faith and thanksgiving.

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From Psalm , verse 3, the phrase not only speaks for Rev. Holden, but represents the unspoken thanks for all who, for one reason or other, were not aboard Titanic when she departed Queenstown on Thursday, April 11 at 1.

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Holden was not the only clergyman planning to attend the Christian Congress who did not sail from England aboard Titanic. According to an article in The New York Times April 20, , two other European speakers who had been invited to speak at the convocation also canceled their passages aboard Titanic maiden voyage when forced by circumstances to change their plans: Madden, of Liverpool, and the Rev. This is the same Christian rally which the British editor, William Thomas Stead had been invited to address.

Stead did not cancel, and was lost in the disaster. To date 3, Americans, 2, Britons and scattered, all more or less prominent, have entered the "Just Missed It Club. Of this number, had premonitions of disaster. The rest were in Paris and couldn't break away. Of the balance, are glad they were not aboard at the time, as they surely would have come home on the Titanic. Firesides of future generations are sure to be thrilled by grandfather's story of how his paternal ancestor 'just missed it Milwaukee [Wisconsin] Journal, April 2.

Thus was the matter of "missed" passages on Titanic somewhat jocularly dismissed by an American newspaper in April However, the fact does remain that there were a number of people who, for one reason or another — including some who were hired, had actually received tickets or confirmed their passage — did cancel their trips. As noted, among the crew, some, such as the three Slade brothers, had their passages canceled for them. Thomas Hart did not sail as a crew member, but "Thomas Hare" did; fireman John Coffey made it part way, as far as Queenstown, before deserting.

A number of passengers did not sail because they were delayed by business or personal reasons.

One passenger, already booked and his name on the passenger list missed the sailing because his car broke down on the way to Cherbourg. According to the August 8, Daily Independent of Monessen, Pennsylvania, after writing to friends that she would sail on Titanic's maiden voyage, Miss Maude Powell changed her mind and remained a bit longer in England. She had been medical missionary in Peking, China for six years. She sent a letter to her American friends advising them of her change in plans, but somehow the letter had gone astray, and they believed her lost.

There were 18 third-class passengers, booked at Queenstown, who did not board. Some cancellations most not noted here , were apparently based on various psychic forebodings. Clergymen appear to have done especially well in missing the boat: All were spared to carry on God's work in greener pastures. Transferring to earlier or later ships; pending business or judicial dealings; personal or family problems; desertion; inadequate accommodations.

Regardless of the cause, there were a number of bona fide cancellations for Titanic's 10 April departure from Southampton.