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Period: Present Day
Setting: A living room.
Characters:
A middle aged married couple:
MONA
BLAKE
Their three adult children:
JOE - eldest
PHILLIP - Middle
ELISHA - youngest
Premiered at
Sacred Fools Theater
Los Angeles, CA 2016
Cast L to R: Michelle Philippe as Elisha, Isaac Deakyne as Phillip, Scott Krinsky as Joe, Hersha Parady as Mona and Sean Bolger as Blake.
Directed by Jessica Salans, Produced by Lemon Baardsen, David LM McIntyre and Ari Radousky
While the play is dramatic, the characters use humor to deal with their situation - and I have debated describing it as a "dramedy"... like so many of my plays, it skates back and forth across that line.
In the play, a mother reveals to her three bickering children that her cancer has returned - more aggressively - and she has only a few months to live - leaving them to resolve their own issues as to how they will handle the news.
She Will Have Freesias premiered April 2nd, 2016, at The Sacred Fools Theater in Los Angeles as part of their FIFTIETH Fast & Loose Overnight Plays Festival.
The play was produced at Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas in Spetember of 2024.
Ronni Horn as Mona, Caleb Manuel as Blake, Aster Retherford as Philip, Zander Chenoweth as Joe, and Annie Miller as Elisha
Directed by Caleb Manuel, photo by Erin Urick.
