TOUCH THE MOON - full-length play, 5 characters by Arianna Rose
Full Length play 85 minutes.
Winner, HRC Showcase Theater, Hudson, NY, Equity Staged Reading Series, July 2022.
Winner, Fantasy Theatre Factory New Year, New Works Series 2022, Staged Reading April 2022. Miami FL.
Dean Productions Premiere the Play, podcast 2021, Los Angeles CA
Walking Shadow Readers Theatre, Online Reading, Washington D.C., April 2021.
Winner, 3rd place for...
Full Length play 85 minutes.
Winner, HRC Showcase Theater, Hudson, NY, Equity Staged Reading Series, July 2022.
Winner, Fantasy Theatre Factory New Year, New Works Series 2022, Staged Reading April 2022. Miami FL.
Dean Productions Premiere the Play, podcast 2021, Los Angeles CA
Walking Shadow Readers Theatre, Online Reading, Washington D.C., April 2021.
Winner, 3rd place for full length play, Mix It Up Productions 2020 Spring Emerging Playwright Contest
Honorable Mention, Panndora's Box 2020 New Play Festival, Long Beach CA
Finalist, Depot New Play Reading Series 2022, Hampton CT
Finalist, 2020 Swarthmore Players Club New Plays Festival.
Semi-Finalist, 2020 Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival
Full Length Version - 5 characters. Drama.
It is Spring Break, 1995, on an unnamed island somewhere far from Miranda’s home. Over her mother’s objections, Miranda leaves for this trip with her best friend Emily and other students from her school. That is the last time Miranda is ever seen alive. Through a series of short vignettes that connect past, present, and future, we meet Miranda, her mother Becca, her best friend Emily, Stefan, and his father Dirk and begin to piece together what may have happened to Miranda that fateful night.
Stefan is the last person to have seen her alive, and Miranda confronts him in the interrogation room where he is being held. Evasive and cunning, Stefan slowly reveals his true colors as a pathological liar as a frustrated Becca tries to elicit any answers she can of her daughter’s whereabouts.
A fuller picture of Miranda emerges, showing a young girl on the cusp of womanhood, healing from a broken family dynamic and exploring the boundaries of her sexuality that ultimately spelled out her doom. Dirk tries to protect his son once again from allegations of harming a woman, and Emily is haunted by the fight she and Miranda had on the island, convinced it is her fault that Miranda may be dead.
A play about how humans need to know, and sometimes need to tell, TOUCH THE MOON draws a line between truth and lies and how they intersect. At its heart it is a story of motherly love and determination in the face of the unthinkable.