Serenity

by Emily Elyse Everett

90 minutes. Four students at Sacred Heart Academy for Girls tangle themselves in their fears, obsessions, identities, and faiths as they battle for a place on the coveted Sacred Heart Church Counsel. 

90 minutes. Four students at Sacred Heart Academy for Girls tangle themselves in their fears, obsessions, identities, and faiths as they battle for a place on the coveted Sacred Heart Church Counsel. 

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Serenity

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  • Oded Gross: Serenity

    This play was such an easy, delightful read. Garrison really captures the voices of these 15-year-old girls, as well as that inexplicable period when young women come of age and their friendships evolve or dissolve. I would love to see this staged!

    This play was such an easy, delightful read. Garrison really captures the voices of these 15-year-old girls, as well as that inexplicable period when young women come of age and their friendships evolve or dissolve. I would love to see this staged!

  • David Rigano: Serenity

    The reality of how our closest friendships can change, shift, and ultimately diminish is such a difficult topic to handle, and Everett is more than up to the challenge in this beautiful play. One of the most heartbreaking elements is how uneventful the dissolution of a friendship group can be. But the play doesn't harp on it or turn it into high tragedy. The friendship is celebrated for what it was as well as what it evolves into.

    The reality of how our closest friendships can change, shift, and ultimately diminish is such a difficult topic to handle, and Everett is more than up to the challenge in this beautiful play. One of the most heartbreaking elements is how uneventful the dissolution of a friendship group can be. But the play doesn't harp on it or turn it into high tragedy. The friendship is celebrated for what it was as well as what it evolves into.

  • Hayley St. James: Serenity

    A surprising and lovely coming of age play that tackles religion, sexuality, and friendship with frankness, joy, and all the requisite teenage angst and awkwardness one could hope for in a play like this. I love these girls so much and I hope someone produces it and gives them the spotlight they deserve.

    A surprising and lovely coming of age play that tackles religion, sexuality, and friendship with frankness, joy, and all the requisite teenage angst and awkwardness one could hope for in a play like this. I love these girls so much and I hope someone produces it and gives them the spotlight they deserve.

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Character Information

4F
  • Meera
    Sophomore. Nervous, bright, try-hard, desperate.
    Character Age
    teens
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • Charlie
    Sophomore. Disjointed, energetic, shameless, brave.
    Character Age
    teens
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • Annabelle
    Sophomore. Quiet, brilliant, independent, pragmatic.
    Character Age
    teens
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • Emmy
    Senior. Dark, calculated, sensitive, guarded.
    Character Age
    teens
    Character Gender Identity
    Female

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization Macha TheatreWorks, Year 2021
  • Type Reading, Organization Women's Theatre Festival, Year 2020
  • Type Reading, Organization Players Club of Swarthmore, Year 2020
  • Type Workshop, Organization Broad Views on Broadway, Year 2019
  • Type Reading, Organization No Man's Land Theatre Company, Year 2018

Awards

  • Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival
    Semi-Finalist
    2021
  • New Play Festival (5 Selections out of 100 Submissions)
    Players Club of Swarthmore
    Winner
    2020