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Ruby Moon

  • Matt Cameron
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Mystery/Thriller, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780868197746

In Flaming Tree Grove, life appears to be picture perfect. Security and privacy are coveted and seclusion is its own reward. Until the day when little Ruby sets off to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac and is never seen again.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Mystery/Thriller

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Appropriate for all audiences

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Community Theatre
In Flaming Tree Grove, life appears to be picture perfect. Security and privacy are coveted and seclusion is its own reward. Until the day when little Ruby sets off to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac and is never seen again. The neighbourhood fractures into grief and suspicion in the search for answers to a terrible deprivation. Then a parcel arrives on her parents’ doorstep …
For education resources from Sydney Theatre Company click here and click here.
Scripts available for purchase through Currency Press. 

Premiere Production: Ruby Moon was first produced by Playbox and Neonheart at the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, on 30 July 2003.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Notes: The play is written for one male and one female actor to play all of the roles.

  • SYLVIE MOON - the mother
    RAY MOON - the father
    DULCIE DOILY - the spinster
    SID CRAVEN - the clown
    VERONICA VALE - the singer
    SONNY JIM - the soldier
    DAWN BERGER - the babysitter
    CARL OGLE - the inventor

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