A veiled retelling of the Natalee Holloway disappearance in Aruba. Deftly told and creatively staged. The writer managed to breathe some life to an already twice told tale with inventive staging and dramatic overlap.

Arianna shows you the heartache and pain of a mother seeking the truth about her daughter’s disappearance from a man who may be suffering from mental illness. It’s a beautiful and poetic play that aroused strong emotions in the audience. . I saw this at the 2022 Inge festival in Independence KS.

Arianna Rose is a playwright who routinely – and expertly – exploits the rhythms and music of language to explore the complications of the human heart. In TOUCH THE MOON, which I saw in a reading at the 2022 Inge Festival, Rose is inspired by a real-life mystery about the unsolved disappearance of a young woman and she finds poetry even in the darkest of human truths. This is a beautifully theatrical and haunting play.