IN THE DARKNESS SHOW ME THE STARS
WRITTEN BY TWIN FLAMES
In The Darkness Show Me the Stars, written by Canadian multi- award-winning Indigenous husband and wife duo, Twin Flames. The musical captures the despair of Covid-19 victims and those living with mental health and anxiety disorders, it also captures the desperation of George Floyd’s final moments. The musical represents the alienation of ‘the people’ in a flaying democracy, and is an awakening to the need for people to address systemic racism and sexism all over the world.
A crescendo builds up slowly, often under a set rhythm or music. 2020 was a year that definitely built up, it just kept on getting louder, all the while silencing racial minorities and making it hard for any of us to breathe. In The Darkness show me the Stars is a deep look into the moments of 4 Young lives living through 2020. They are joined only by the wishes they whisper to the stars. While governments stoke the flames of racial and political division, the young ones find a way through the darkness and to one another. If you’ve ever experienced a nightmare that you struggled to wake up from and woke up screaming and covered in sweat, unable to breathe you would know what each of the young Characters are feeling with their own struggles.
They each fight to find their strength; and stand up for what they believe in. They hold on to the light in the darkness and follow the guiding stars. What is revealed is lasting change one that will leave them forever connected in ways they will never fully understand. We are like Constellations imaginary boundaries formed by connecting the dots.
FEATURING
SETH ZOSKY
CLARENCE JURA
KRIZIA NATALE
MAKENNA MATWIJEC
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS: ABBY GRASS
ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHERS: MADISON HILL
MUSICIANS: HANEUL YI, MATTHEW JOSEPH, SETH ZOSKY
STAGE MANAGER:KIRSTYN KEEBLE
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS:SYDNEY STOBO, BRITTANY ELISHA
STAGE MANAGEMENT PREP:JESS GORDON
