WANDA, DAISY AND THE GREAT RAPTURE
SYNOPSIS
It’s a sticky hot summer in the swamplands of Pawley’s Island, South Carolina. Step-sisters Wanda and Daisy struggle to get by as the people they love disappear; Wanda’s mother has recently died, and Daisy’s father's mysterious illness worsens, and his obsession with an impending rapture intensifies. The girls try to repair their fractured relationship by summoning dark memories in hopes of finding a little light. A magical story about how we hold onto family, the past and ourselves while we seek better lives, and wait patiently as the Great Rapture hails us--or doesn’t.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
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Available Light Theatre’s Next Stage Initiative, Workshop, January 2016
Directed by: Jennifer Schlueter
Starring: Damian Bowerman, Amanda Loch, Sue Wismar, and Cassidy Slaughter-Mason
Scenic Design: Brad Steinmetz
Lighting Design: Carrie Cox
Production Manager: Sheree Greco
Cassidy Slaughter-Mason in Available Light Theatre's Workshop Production
Exquisite Corpse Company's Summer Residency on Governor's Island, June 2016
Directed by: Ran Xia
Starring: Kayla Catan, Dan DeCarlo, McKenna DuBose, Camara McLaughlin
Original Music by: Adrian Bridges
Scenic & Lighting Design by: Ran Xia
Kayla Catan, McKenna DuBose, Camara McLaughlin, Dan DeCarlo and Adrian Bridges in Exquisite Corpse's Production on Governor's Island, photos by Ran Xia
Exquisite Corpse Company's Drinks & Drama Reading Series at Isa Bar in Brooklyn, June 2015
Directed by: Tara Elliot
Starring: Dana Steinhoff, Stephan Godleski, Sarah Matusek, and Carlos Guillermo Gomez Marquez
Sarah Matusek, Stephan Godleski, Carlos Guillermo Gomez Marquez, and Dana Steinhoff in Exquisite Corpse Company's Drinks & Drama at Isa Bar
Foundry Theatre Chicago, Reading, November 2015
Directed by: Heinrich Haley
Starring: Cassidy Slaughter-Mason, Anthony Venturini, Abby Pierce and Maria Margaglione
AWARDS & HONORS
- 2016 ATHE Jane Chambers Award Honorable Mention
- Winner of The Landing Theatre's 2017 New American Voices Reading Series in Houston, TX
- Winner of Relative Theatrics 2017 Playwrights Voiced Competition in Laramie, WY