I Can’t Stop Loving You

“I Can’t Stop Lovin’ You” is a play in two acts. It is Kendall’s love and dance tribute to the Northeastern New Mexico plains and to the farm and ranch people who made Union County their home in the late 1950s and 1970s.

Act I takes place in 1979, though the primary action occurs in a flashback to 1959, at the Fourth of July dance at the American Legion Hall in Clayton, New Mexico. The central character, Ed Johnson, is a 12-year-old who enjoys the celebration with family and school friends. The people are country folk still making their livings on the land. The dance scenes reflect that connection to each other and their farm and ranch work.

Act II transpires twenty years later, The Central Character is now 32 years old ten years returned from Viet Nam. The dance setting is now The Kiva Inn in downtown Clayton – the bar is in an old hotel that’s seen better times, the crowd is mostly local business men and women. A few cowboys and ranchers sit at the tables and the bar.

The play is a love story, the tale of a man who loves and keeps his land but loses his woman along the way. Or does he?

This play could be successfully adapted for film. Interested parties can email kcmccook@yahoo.com to obtain a copy of the play.