Rights of Passage
- Full Length Play, Drama, Fables/Folktales, Contemporary
- 6M, 2F
- ISBN: 9780573706912
"Nuanced, engrossing, riveting [...] the impact is undeniable."
San Francisco Chronicle
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama, Fables/Folktales
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Mixing traditional forms of storytelling, including puppetry, mask, and dance with modern devices such as digital media, the play nimbly explores the struggle that each of us faces in establishing our identity and living in a way that is true to ourselves.
From the central story of Wayan's journey, the play expands to tell true stories of LGBTQ struggles and triumphs from around the world. Each story fits into the play's overall narrative arc, which is built around three key "rites" of passage in life -- childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
REVIEWS:
"Nuanced, engrossing, riveting [...] the impact is undeniable."
San Francisco Chronicle
Characters
- Casting: 6M, 2F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Ensemble cast, Non-Traditional casting, Role(s) for Asian Actor(s), Cross gender casting, Multicultural casting, Role(s) for Black Actor(s)
PUTU - (POOH-too) Young Balinese boy (shadow puppet)
MOON - Moon goddess who watches over the earth
WAYAN - (Why-ANN) Gay Balinese man who ages from child to adult (puppet through age 10)
MADE - (MAH-day) Wayan's grandmother, Nyonman's mother, a traditional Balinese woman
NYOMAN - (NEE-oh-mon) Wayan's father, Made's son
ATIN - (AH-tin) Wayan's mother (shadow puppet)
ARDHANARI SWARI - (Ardha-naree Swa-ree) Hindu god depicted as half-male and half-female (shadow puppet)
RANGDA - (RANG-da) Demon queen on the Layaks in Balinese mythology
SELA - (SAY-la) Ten-year-old Indonesian girl. Wayan's best friend (puppet)
SHE - Pre-adolescent Muslim girl in a burka (puppet)
HE - Pre-adolescent American boy in modern dress (puppet)
KLAUS - (Klouse) Nine-year-old German boy in Peter Pan pajamas (puppet)
NDUMI - (Nee-DOO-me) Teenage Senegalese lesbian
COLIN - (CALL-in) Teenage boy in London
DHIRA - (DEER-ah) Teenage girl from Iran raised in the UK
MUM - Dhira's mother (offstage voice)
KADEK - (Kah-DECK) Young Balinese male, from age 18 through 28
YANOS - (YAW-nose) Serbian male nationalist, age 20-25
VICTIM - Central European gay man, age 20-25
KUNYARAT - (COON-ya-rot) Transgender Asian woman
SAVANNA - (Sa-VAN-ah) Black Mississippi drag queen
GUY - (rhymes with eye) Homophobic male plumber
JUSTIN - Gay guy at plumbing company
DOUGIE - Guy's friend
NORMA - Guy's wife
MAVUTO - (Mah-WOO-toe) Malawian male, age 20
CHITUWE - (Chi-TOO-way) Malawian male, age 21
MURNI - (MUR-nee) Indonesian teenage girl
FACEBOOK - Posting from around the globe (voices)
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Wayan is a young, gay Hindu man who lives on the island of Bali in Indonesia. Wayan searches for a way to reconcile who he is with what his family and community expect of him. |
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