Donna Orbits the Moon
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NORTHERN LIGHT THEATRE in JANUARY 2024
PLAYERS CLUB OF SWATHMORE in FEBRUATRY 2024
Winner of the Thomas Barbour Memorial Playwriting Award
Something is not quite right with Donna: She's a loving mother, a devoted wife, and a minor celebrity to all the bake sale planners in town--but something is making her spacey, and she's not sure what it is. Therapy is out of the question--and church isn't the place to share one's distress. Donna will need to pass through space and through time--all the while listening to an unlikely voice--and try to break free from her gravitational pull to learn just how she can land.
CAST BREAKDOWN: 1W
RUN TIME: 75 Minutes.
“A worthwhile afternoon or evening of theater from an actor turned playwright who, like Ibsen and Shaw, finds the humanity in small domestic corners.”
Promotional image of Kathryn Atwood in the 2011 Utah Contemporary Theatre production of Donna Orbits the Moon.
Kathryn Atwood in the 2011 Utah Contemporary Theatre production of Donna Orbits the Moon.
“August... ha[s] crafted a modestly scaled meditation on the devastation of despair and the power of hope; one that suggests we may have lost our cold and dusty moon, but we’ve regained the ability to wish upon a star.”
Images from the NJ Repertory Company World Premiere production of DONNA ORBITS THE MOON, starring Andrea Gallo, directed by Marc Gellar, Scenic Design by Jessica Parks, Costume Design by Pat Doherty, and Stage Managed by Rose Riccardi. Executive Producer Gabor Barabas, Artistic Director SuzAnne Barabas.
“There is something sweet and vulnerable yet cosmic about Donna and her plight that reminded me of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s plucky Little Prince. This is a play that discovers and celebrates the cracks in the façade, the unknowable in the ordinary, the humanity in the humble.”
Images from the October, 2019 production of Donna Orbits the Moon. Produced by Tiny Dynamite Productions for A Play A Pie and a Pint. Directed by Claire Moyer; performed by Sabrina Profitt. Photos by Claire Moyer.