Year of Thirteen Moons

Year of Thirteen Moons

Year of Thirteen Moons

Script Fee: $150.00 Licensing: $65.00 per performance
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Genre:  Contemporary Dramedy

Format: Live In-Person Performance

Keywords: coming-of-age, blended families, heartwarming, identity, racial justice, trauma recovery, sibling relationships

Cast Size: 5 (1 male, 3 female, 1 flexible); with doubling, 4 (1 male, 3 female)

Duration: Approximately 65 minutes

Time Period: 2020

Cautions: Mild language; discussion of historical racism and slavery; references to rape, foster care, and drug-related legal trouble; brief mentions of domestic abuse and incarceration; some scenes include masks and COVID-19 lockdowns

2020: the year of thirteen full moons. Under quarantine lockdown skies and the hum of BLM protests, 13-year-old Sam Baron is watching the stars—and watching her family drift out of orbit. Her mother, a renowned historian, is brilliant and driven, yet emotionally unavailable. Her newly-discovered half-brother is prickly, asthmatic, and possibly vanishing again. And the only adult who consistently shows up in Sam’s life isn’t technically family, but she might be the closest thing Sam has to home.

As the moon waxes and wanes, Sam turns to her telescope, her therapist (who sometimes appears with a third eye), and to the people around her for steady ground...yet finding shifting stars instead. But clarity doesn’t come from the constellations above; it comes from the fierce gravity of love.

Wry, warm, and full of cosmic wonder, Year of Thirteen Moons is a coming-of-age play that finds humor in the heartbreak, strength in the stillness, and hope in the most unexpected alignments.

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Matt Harmon

I had the privilege of seeing Shames' YEAR OF THIRTEEN MOONS at the 2021 ThinkTank TYA Playwrights Festival and this play shook me to my core. The characters speak with such wit, such power, and such sincerity, even when the situation is difficult. The result is a play that has you leaning in the entire time, waiting with bated breath for what the next line will be. To all producers looking for a timely, spellbinding show that will take you to the stars, YEAR OF THIRTEEN MOONS is IT!