The Dark Arts for Beginners

It's the year 2057, and the planet's climate crisis has passed the point of no return. Fires rage, cities drown, cancer rates soar, and the population is forced to live nocturnally. Humanity's last hope lies with a coven of teenage witches. There are just two little problems: these kids are tapping into forces more powerful than they could ever imagine - and, they don't exactly know what they're doing.

It's the year 2057, and the planet's climate crisis has passed the point of no return. Fires rage, cities drown, cancer rates soar, and the population is forced to live nocturnally. Humanity's last hope lies with a coven of teenage witches. There are just two little problems: these kids are tapping into forces more powerful than they could ever imagine - and, they don't exactly know what they're doing.

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The Dark Arts for Beginners

EVA: 17 years old. Awkward, earnest, and very unsure of herself. Feels and cares about things very deeply. Wants very badly to fit in and be liked but isn't quite sure how to do it.

JANE: 18 years old. Eva's older sister. Droll, dry, and often seems exasperated by Eva, but just barely under the surface, she loves her sister very fiercely.

ASHANTI: 17 years old. Eva's friend and crush. She has a deeply felt but very teenage sense of spirituality and often takes herself a little too seriously.

IMOGEN: 17 years old. Eva's frenemy. The cool kid who makes a great show of always being snarky, rude, and above everything, but is secretly smarter and more sensitive than she lets on.

CLAIRE: 17 years old. Imogen's best friend and sidekick. Very nervous and neurotic. She sometimes seems like a bit of a doormat, especially with Imogen, but she can be stronger than she seems when she really wants to be.

CERNUNNOS: An ancient god. He appears as a disembodied voice, then a shadow, then as a 30something suburban dad. In his initial forms, he's intense and foreboding, but also slightly ridiculous in his self-importance. In his dad form, he's corny and nurturing, with some of that foreboding quality still simmering under the surface.

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Year 2021