Suzette Who Set to Sea

The script is clever, with lots of linguistic tricks that will be enjoyable to adults and to older kids. And there is lots of room for all the slapstick comedy dear to children’s hearts – and adults’ hearts, too, when they admit it… I saw the play as a female empowerment study, but there was no sense of a morality play’

Hitting the Stage, Hawaii


In a small seaside village where men build boats and women do not, young Suzette knows she is different – she longs for the sea and believes she is meant for something greater than a life on land. So when a mysterious event occurs, Suzette is forced to do that most difficult thing – prove herself worthy of her destiny.

Loading her loved ones onto a boat she has secretly built, Suzette, she sets to sea.

AWARDS
2014, Selected as La Jolla Theater’s POP Tour Commission, touring to 53 Californian schools

CAST SIZE

This is a story told by 3, but others may help to bring it to life
Previous seasons: 3-30 performers

AUDIENCE SIZE

For ages six and up, all the way to adult

LENGTH

50-70 minutes

SEASONS

2021

Alfred University, New York NY, USA

2020

Herberger Theatre Center, Phoenix AZ, USA (Childsplay)
Olympia Family Theatre, WA, USA
Astor Middle School, Portland OR, USA

2019

Arizona statewide tour (produced by Childsplay)
Syracuse Stage, Syracuse NY, USA

2018

Taunton High School, MA, USA

2015

Honolulu Theater for Youth, HI, USA (produced by HTY)
Da Vinci Middle School, Portland OR, USA (produced by Da Vinci)

2014

53 schools in San Diego County, CA, USA (produced by La Jolla)

suzette

Honolulu Theater for Youth production 2015, starring Alvin Chan, Maile Holck and Junior Tesoro

FIRST PRODUCED

  • Commissioned/first produced by La Jolla Theater, 2014
  • First directed by Eric Johnson

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