Where Words Once Were
Published in the Currency Press anthology For We The Young: Five Plays by Finegan Kruckemeyer
5 stars ‘This is invigorating stuff, with a wonderful bonus of being entirely family-friendly without sacrificing its political edge’
DC Theatre Scene
‘Terrific… It will do what good theatre should do… leave you talking afterwards. That is what I call a full theatre experience’
Broadway World
Set in a dystopian time where language is rationed, a sentence can get you sentenced and the silent are rising, our young hero Orhan discovers that a word can change the world.
AWARDS/RECOGNITION
2020, Published in Currency Press’ ‘For We the Young’ anthology
2017 Australian Writers Guild Award: Best Theatre for Young Audiences
CAST SIZE
This is a story told – this may be by one, by some, or by many
Previous seasons: 5-30 performers
AUDIENCE SIZE
For ages nine and up, all the way to adult
LENGTH
40-70 minutes
SEASONS
20 seasons in three countries (USA, Canada, Australia)
2021
University of North Carolina, Greensboro NC, USA
Dumas High School, Amarillo TX, USA
Truett Wilson Middle School, Haslet TX, USA
2020
Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu HI, USA
Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi TX, USA
China Spring Middle School, Waco TX, USA
Daggett Montessori School, Fort Worth TX, USA
Slocum ISD, Elkhart TX, USA
John Curtin College of the Arts, WA, Australia
Shire Christian School, NSW, Australia
Bialik College, Vic, Australia
2019
Storybook Theatre, Calgary AL, Canada
Theatre Raleigh, Raleigh NC, USA
Southwestern Oklahoma State University, OK, USA
Jersey Village High School, Houston TX, USA
Ronald Thornton Middle School, Sienna Plantation TX, USA
2018
Lincoln Center for the Arts, New York NY (produced by Kennedy Center)
Bingham High School, UT, USA
2017
Weber State University, Ogden UT, USA
2016
Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington DC, USA
Kennedy Center production 2015, starring Christopher Lane, Alina Collins Maldonado, Regina Aquino, Tony Nam and Marcus Kyd. Director Colin Stanley Hovde
FIRST PRODUCED
- Commissioned and first produced by John F Kennedy Center for the Arts (Washington DC)
- First directed by Colin Stanley Hovde
- Dramaturged by Jonathan Shmidt Chapman