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Sundown, Yellow Moon

  • Rachel Bonds
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 4M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573706721

"Ms. Bonds and the Bengsons know the redemptive joy of singing your sorrows and finding the rhymes in a world without reason."

The New York Times

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Ray and Joey, twin sisters, have returned home to their small southern town to help their father in a moment of crisis. He is recently divorced and has just had an altercation with the administration at the school where he teaches. Joey is about to head off to Berlin on a Fulbright scholarship, while Ray has just left her job and a romantic relationship with her boss.

The family comes together and sees friends from their pasts, but they can't get over the ennui that is associated with moving on from where they've been to where they will be.

REVIEWS:

CRITIC'S PICK! "Ms. Bonds and the Bengsons know the redemptive joy of singing your sorrows and finding the rhymes in a world without reason."

 The New York Times

"Sundown, Yellow Moon is a softly-glowing night-light of a narrative, a beacon of memory illuminating a forgotten childhood hallway."

 Exeunt Magazine

Premiere Production: Sundown, Yellow Moon premiered in a co-production between WP Theatre and Ars Nova in New York City in March 2017 under the direction of Anne Kauffman.
  • Casting: 4M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting

  • RAY - (Rayleen) Joey's twin sister, mid 20's
    JOEY - (Josephine) Ray's twin sister, mid 20's
    TOM - their dad, mid-late 50's
    CARVER - Tom's counselor, early/mid 30's
    JEAN - a family friend, early 50's
    BOBBY - family friend, mid-late 50's
    The COLLEGE RADIO STATION'S LATE NIGHT DJ - plated by the actor who plays BOBBY
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    Ray and Joey, twin sisters, have returned home to their small southern town to help their father in a moment of crisis. He is recently divorced and has just had an altercation with the administration at the school where he teaches. Joey is about to head off to Berlin on a Fulbright scholarship, while Ray has just left her job and a romantic relationship with her boss.

    The family comes together and sees friends from their pasts, but they can't get over the ennui that is associated with moving on from where they've been to where they will be.

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