Still Life With Iris at MIlwaukee Youth Theatre

Dates: (20/2/2014 - 21/2/2014 )

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MIlwaukee Youth Theatre

820 E. Knapp Street
Milwaukee,WI WI 53202

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Set in Nocturno, Still Life With Iris
chronicles a young girl's quest to regain her
memory and with it her home. With the
help of the incredible people she meets
along the way, Iris' crusade recovers more
than her past. She succeeds in finding
herself: the power of faith and the courage
of persistence. These traits will lead her
home.
In the world of Nocturno, all the things one
sees by day are made by the people who
live there at night while the rest of the
world sleeps. The sun is raised each
morning by a signal from the day breaker,
the moon is roped and lowered into a
basket every night. The inhabitants of
Nocturno busy themselves all night long
putting leaves back on the branches,
painting the flowers, filling the clouds with
rain, making and bottling thunder for
storms, and painting the spots on the
ladybugs. In this world, Iris is a ten-year-
old girl living happily with her mother.
Each of the inhabitants of Nocturno wears
a beautiful coat that contains all their
memories, a coat that is kept carefully
mended by the local tailor, the Memory
Mender. Without the coat, or if it becomes
threadbare, the inhabitants would lose
who they really were, because they
wouldn't be able to remember. During their
work, they are expected to keep a lookout
for the perfect example of their creations,
which will then be sent to the Island of the
Great Goods, where Grotto and Gretta
Good rule and keep a single example of the
perfect leaf, or the perfect book, and so
on. Because she's seen as being perfect of
her kind, she is taken to the island of the
Great Goods, to become their perfect
daughter. To do so, she has her coat taken
away from her. Iris manages to keep a
button from her coat, and when she holds
it, she remembers something, but the
memory is slim and enigmatic. She then
goes on a journey to reclaim that memory.
The play's story line is in the tradition of
Alice in Wonderland. Its allegorical
elements and cultural references may
mean more to the parents in the audience
than to the children, but its strong plot,
fantastical characters, and appealing
heroine will engage children as well. The
play explores how loss of one's past steals
the future as well, and how our past
defines who we are. Through a series of
encounters with new friends, Iris is able to
seek and discover the rest of her past, as
well as revealing a wonderful secret which
changes her future.

Cast and Creative team for Still Life With Iris at MIlwaukee Youth Theatre

Written By Steven Dietz

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