You Must Wear a Hat by C. Meaker

Tuesday and Weeks make hats on the Great Barrier Reef waiting for the world to end. A play for two and a rabbit puppet.
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You Must Wear a Hat

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  • Alex Kingsley:
    22 Jan. 2023
    “ I had the opportunity to see a staged reading of this play at the Kennedy Center and it was so fantastically bizarre. Deeply unsettling in the best way. ”
  • Erin Malone Turner:
    15 Oct. 2021
    “ I got to see a staged reading of this at Kitchen Dog Theater, and it has haunted me since then in the best way. It's one of the most heart-wrenching two-handers I've ever experienced. An exquisite diorama of reaching out in loneliness, the intimacy of trading stories & secrets, and what the world could have to offer at the end of it. It's funny, desperate, rich, and clings to hope / joy / wonder. This play is a gift. ”
  • Charles Green:
    18 Sep. 2020
    “ One of the most cogent explorations of love, this play isolates the viewer in a melancholy state, stripping away our defenses and opening us up to the potential for total vulnerability. Funny, strange, and hopeful, one can't help but feel the play is an act of forgiveness, a truly rare catharsis. ”
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Tuesday
Weeks
A rabbit puppet

Tuesday and Weeks have been intentionally written gender neutrally, however, neither should be cis-gender male. Both characters could be any race, however, they should not both be white. They can be played by women, gender queer, trans*, masc of center, femme of center, and/or non-binary folkx. Considering they are the only representatives of this world, they should represent, as much as they can, a difference in body type, age range, race and ethnicity, able-ness, gender expression, etc.

A note about the rabbit. The rabbit is a puppet. The puppet does not have to be a realistic representation of a rabbit. My favorite puppet was a simple articulated, cardboard puppet.

Development History

  • Reading
    ,
    Hub Theatre
    ,
    2019
  • Reading
    ,
    University of Iowa New Play Festival
    ,
    2018
  • Workshop
    ,
    NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Workshop
    ,
    2018

Production History

  • University
    ,
    University of Iowa Workshop Production
    ,
    2018

Awards

Finalist
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Leah Ryan FEWW
,
2019
Semi-Finalist
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O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
,
2019