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Gathering Blue

In an apocalyptic future where children are kept like animals and human life is cheap, young Kira learns the ugly truth about the powers controlling the world.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 65 minutes

  • Time Period: The Future
  • Target Audience: Adult, Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Children (Age 6 - 10), Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Area Staging

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
In an apocalyptic future where children are kept like animals and human life is cheap, young Kira learns the ugly truth about the powers controlling the world.

A gifted weaver, her talent catches the attention of the Council of Guardians. Under their custody, Kira is made to mend and embellish the ceremonial Singer's Robe -- a garment that tells the history of the world. But the longer she works, the more she learns about the horrifying secrets that keep her community hostage.

Can she use her knowledge and art to reshape the future?
REVIEWS:

"Vivid, earnest and engrossing."

 The Oregonian

"A sophisticated approach to the material that draws out the everyday heroism of the characters who find themselves in a sinister world... A tastefully executed adaptation of a story that bravely addresses some of the darker shadows in the world around us."

 Express Milwaukee

"Gathering Blue continues a remarkably successful run of plays based on Lowry's books that began with Coble's adaptation of The Giver... it's prickly, picking at the edges of ideas, peeking under the blanket of comfortability to stare at the fears and dangers underneath... The sharp whooshing sound of 250 or so middle-school kids inhaling in shock together can fill a theater in a most exhilarating way."

 Oregon Arts Watch

"Powerfully evokes this dystopian world... The desolation is brightened by necessary comic relief, getting laughs out of children and adults alike."

 Willamette Week

Premiere Production: Gathering Blue premiered at the Oregon Children's Theatre in Portland, Ore., on April 27th, 2013.

Characters

  • Casting: 15M, 15F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)

  • KIRA - a teenage girl finding her gift.
    KATRINA - Kira's mother, newly taken.
    CHRISTOPHER - Kira's father, taken long ago.
    MATT - a young boy, hungry for the world.
    VANDARA - a scarred woman of the village.
    CHIEF GUARDIAN - the voice of order in the village.
    JAMISON - a guardian of the village.
    THOMAS - a teenage boy who knows his gift.
    ANNABELLA - an old woman who knows.
    JO - a very young girl with a future.
    THE SINGER - a man who remembers.
    Various Villagers, Guards, Tenders

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    In an apocalyptic future where children are kept like animals and human life is cheap, young Kira learns the ugly truth about the powers controlling the world.

    A gifted weaver, her talent catches the attention of the Council of Guardians. Under their custody, Kira is made to mend and embellish the ceremonial Singer's Robe -- a garment that tells the history of the world. But the longer she works, the more she learns about the horrifying secrets that keep her community hostage.

    Can she use her knowledge and art to reshape the future?

    		$19.95

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