The Children's Hair Turned White: A Red Shuttleworth Play

Kymm Gant and Sabrina Ward

(The Children's Hair Turned White)

The Children's Hair Turned White

a contemporary western nuclear necrofable

Red Shuttleworth

The Children's Hair Turned White (cast of eight women and four men... including dancers) is a drama (with Butoh dance) rooted in the testing of the first atomic bomb at the Trinity site on the Jornada del Muerto in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.  It is a speculative... fictive play, not a history play, nor is it an update play about those children who lived near ground zero.  The characters and post-detonation events are fictive.

Red Shuttleworth's The Children's Hair Turned White premiered at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on November 7, 1990.  It was directed by Davey Marlin-Jones.  Choreography was by Shannon Ryan.  Original music was composed for the play by Kim K. Kamerin.  The Children's Hair Turned White was selected for production at a regional American College Theatre Festival in early 1991 held at Sonoma State University.  The cast of The Children's Hair Turned White featured:

             Charles Supin....................................Voice

             Carrie Ann Ventre.............................Atomic Sun Goddess

             Tazha Hird.........................................Old Sun Goddess

             Aaron Abbey......................................God of Death

             Noelee Martines.................................Coyote Dancer

             Annelisa Blake...................................Coyote Dancer

             Suzanne Hildebrandt..........................Ellen

             Scott Loomis......................................Webb

             Kymm Gant........................................Frosty

             Nicole Sottile......................................Sage

             Michael Ward.....................................Thorn

             Sabrina Ward......................................Moon Goddess

Kymm Gant, Michael Ward, Nicole Sottile, Suzanne Hildebrandt, Annelisa Blake,

Lucy (unknown...  photobomber), and Scott Loomis

(cast members... The Children's Hair Turned White)

Shannon Ryan, Aaron Abbey, Noelle Martines

(dancers... The Children's Hair Turned White)

Red Shuttleworth

(1990)

The script for Red Shuttleworth's The Children's Hair Turned White is available to artistic directors at professional theatres.  Those wishing to receive a copy of the script should send an email to Red Shuttleworth (redshuttleworth@gmail.com).