Tuesday, February 3, 2015

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).
           

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