"Ismene," is the first in a projected series of one act stage plays that are monologues by characters from literature who seem to have been abandoned by their authors. Ismene appears in Sophocles' play "Antigone" and fades into the background at the end of the tragedy that depicts her uncle Creon's downfall. Other plays in progress include: "Caliban," from Shakespeare's "The Tempest," and "Wiglaf," who is left at the end of "Beowulf."