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When She Had Wings

  • Suzan Zeder
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Drama, Contemporary
  • 2M, 2F, 1M or F
  • ISBN: WJ1

A story told in sound, movement and words about 9-year-old B... Just plain B, like the letter, like the grade, who is about to turn 10 and is not happy about that!

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy, Drama
  • 60 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Children (Age 6 - 10), Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student
A story told in sound, movement and words about 9-year-old B... Just plain B, like the letter, like the grade, who is about to turn 10 and is not happy about that! B knows, really knows, that before she could walk, she could fly. She is desperate to remember how before the dreaded birthday comes.

In a summer thunderstorm, B's treehouse is hit by lightning, and a mysterious stranger appears. She cannot speak except in strange squawks, single words and occasionally the letters "KHAQQ" ...the call letters of the plane Amelia Earhart was flying when she disappeared and was never found. 

Is this creature a bird, an older woman escaped from a senior care unit or could she possible by Amelia herself? Together they must help each other remember how to fly... literally and metaphorically.
REVIEWS:

"A visually stunning and profoundly multilayered story that can truly appeal to adults as easily as children."

 DCTheatreScene.com

"Part history lesson, part argument for female empowerment, and part enticing family drama, the compelling and beautifully staged and acted production goes above and beyond your standard theatre for young audiences offering."

 BroadwayWorld.com

"Surprisingly profound for a children's theater venue, which makes it highly enjoyable."

 DCMetroTheaterArts

"A beautiful story that leaves the viewer with hope for dreaming, no matter what age."

 Our Kids

"A beautiful show with a powerful message of making the impossible possible with the limitlessness of childhood imagination."

 Macaroni Kid

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 2F, 1M or F

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A story told in sound, movement and words about 9-year-old B... Just plain B, like the letter, like the grade, who is about to turn 10 and is not happy about that! B knows, really knows, that before she could walk, she could fly. She is desperate to remember how before the dreaded birthday comes.

In a summer thunderstorm, B's treehouse is hit by lightning, and a mysterious stranger appears. She cannot speak except in strange squawks, single words and occasionally the letters "KHAQQ" ...the call letters of the plane Amelia Earhart was flying when she disappeared and was never found. 

Is this creature a bird, an older woman escaped from a senior care unit or could she possible by Amelia herself? Together they must help each other remember how to fly... literally and metaphorically.

$19.95

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