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Margaret Larlham
Of Tortilla Moon, Mark Lynch of Florida Stage wrote:
This is an extraordinarily exciting script . . . it provides the opportunity of staging of a ravishing visual nature. All the elements of design, sound, and movement come together to create a breathtaking experience in the theatre.
Charlene Dibelka, Drama Chair, Montgomery High School notes:
I have produced plays for young audiences for 16 years. Finding new and relevant, as well as stimulating material for children is a challenge! TORTILLA MOON was beloved by my students who performed the play and by the children who saw it. We all loved the bilingual touch, the audience participation, and particularly, the adorable character, Underdog. BEYOND BORDERS touched our students as it reached into the heart of the divisions people create in everyday culture. The play was done, however, with sensitivity and humor. UNDERGROUND JUNGLE was a fun fantasy adventure that opened students' eyes to the destruction of the environment. Thanks to Margaret Larlham, the children's theatre community still is getting vibrant, useable plays that are easy to tour.
Margaret currently has two plays in development: CARZ, a play about the impact that cars have had on American culture - and particularly on the role of women- in the last one hundred years, and FIRE AND MIST, stories of Old Town, San Diego.
| TORTILLA MOON
Published by New Plays, Inc.
A modern bilingual fable with music set in Cactus Street, an imaginary neighborhood somewhere between North and South America.
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| UNDERGROUND JUNGLE
Script and CD available from playwright ($20).
In this high-action, dark comedy, a young girl, Two-Shoes, and Billy the fireman investigate the mysterious global disappearance of the trees into an underground world. Encounters with Ferny, messenger of the Tree Spirits, Queen Genie of the Gene Pool and a villainous trio, the Root-of-all-Evil, lead to a collaborative effort of the trees and the humans to prevent ecological disaster.
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| THE CAT FEET OF THE FOG
Script and CD available from playwright ($20).
A play about Carl Sandburg woven from real events and incidents recorded in his autobiography, poems and stories told through nine original songs and musical images. A zany ensemble of Brainchildren (human manifestations of Sandburg's imagination) re-create Sandburg's memories for a school teacher, Miss Paula Steichen. Physical theatre and inventive staging is suggested for 5 men and 4 women players.
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| BEYOND BORDERS
Script and CD available from playwright ($20).
A gang of homeless teenagers, hoping for financial reward, search for the family of some lost children. Their journey takes them to the mountains, to the sea, and across a threatening border. Along the way they discover their own talents and form a successful pop group called "The Fam."
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