Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. Moonbow Miraculous is a fully unimaginable dramedy for center faculty and highschool scholar performers that’s full of vivid characters and related messaging. A must-read for productions or classwork!
“If someone has a secret they’ve been clutching to their heart, the moonbow’s glow will give them the courage to share their true selves.”
Moonbow Miraculous is a collection of vignettes exploring the theme of popping out, reflecting the infinite range of expertise by including every thing from robots to speaking donuts into the combo.
It’s a celebration of selections, braveness, and the enjoyment of self discovery.
Why did we publish this play?
We love this play. We liked it from the very first time we learn it. It is full of vivid characters and wild creativeness. It has a heartfelt and related message. It gives great performing alternatives for all college students. Kirk has stated concerning the origins of this play that “At some point in our lives, we will all face the challenge of having to define what we are (and what we are not), and I hope sharing this fun journey makes that process feel a little less lonely.” We stand by this 100%.
Let’s hear from the writer!
1. Why did you write this play?
While there are a selection of nice tales about popping out, they have a tendency to deal with a single individual’s expertise and their private obstacles. By juxtaposing a number of vignettes, I wished to discover the numerous alternative ways we discover ourselves.
I additionally wished an opportunity to only play within the sandbox of creativeness, which is how we ended up with a narrative with speaking donuts and non-binary robots.
2. Describe the theme in a single or two sentences.
This play explores that regardless of how totally different we is likely to be, all of us have that second after we uncover who we’re and declare that to the world. It’s a terrifying course of that’s finally well worth the threat.
3. What’s crucial visible for you on this play?
The remaining second is a straightforward holding of fingers, but it surely’s a logo of the kinship that I hope anybody experiencing this play feels.
4. If you might give one piece of recommendation for these producing the play, what wouldn’t it be?
I hope that this play welcomes theatricality, so I wouldn’t need anybody producing the play to get too caught up in precisely what a robotic ought to appear like or how you can stage a rainstorm. Instead, I feel the important thing component is to faucet into the humanity of all the characters (particularly those that aren’t truly human) with a view to draw the viewers in.
5. Why is that this play nice for scholar performers?
Thematically, I count on quite a lot of college students are at a time of their lives when they’re exploring their identities in simply the best way that lots of the characters on this play are. Hopefully, they’ll be capable to see themselves in these roles in a means that they’ll discover rewarding.
Logistically, there’s an countless alternative within the variety of methods these characters could be introduced, so I feel any group of scholars can discover a strategy to carry out this present.
6. Do you may have any recommendation for folks seeking to carry out this play on-line or socially distanced?
Each of those scenes is an interplay between two people, so I feel the hot button is to determine a strategy to convey this intimacy on-line. For instance, I feel taking additional care to verify their eyelines meet up in order that we will see them sharing in a dialog will assist to construct the sense of a private interplay.
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