←Recommendations of Serious Moonlight

There’s some serious “good girl-bad girl” vibes in this remarkable play about expectations, proms, cool, and teen girls. McClain captures an accurate description of the confusion of the teen years and provides a beautiful two-hander of nuance, nostalgia and truths. Dear high schools: produce this.

Grace, who has a reputation for being a good girl, breaks out of that stereotype by climbing on her cousin's roof with vodka in tow for herself and cousin Margaret. Grace insists on crashing an after-prom party that Margaret has been invited to, but Margaret refuses to go with her. Finally Grace is persuasive, but her daredevil tactics backfire at the last minute, a nice twist. Loved the line: "don't name your kid after a virtue because she'll do nothing but disappoint."

Being a Bowie fan I could not resist reading this play by McClain Full of energy, the dialogue between the two characters is electric. A big twist kicks in half way through which leads on to a great finale. I wonder if they got to put on their red shoes and dance the blues? Great!

SERIOUS MOONLIGHT packs some serious nostalgia as two young women navigate the 90s Prom Night that "could be" if only things were different. A great piece to showcase young actresses and to remind audiences of the tumultuous thrills and disappointments of youth.

SERIOUS MOONLIGHT is full of nostalgia and raw teenage emotion that allows audiences to easily root for both of these young women. Having heard this piece both in Cultivators' Cultivate Session and at Working Title Playwrights, I am eager to see the life this short play has once it gets staged!