And he has a sudden urge to kill squirrels-and eat them raw. Sammy and his mom are enjoying roasting marshmallows by the fire, under the full moon, when something very strange starts to happen. As the Moon River Raft approaches, their fate becomes clear and their loyalty to each other is truly tested.Ĭlick here to read an excerpt of the dark comedy play, The Moon River Raft.Click below for the complete digital copy of the short play, The Moon River Raft. Selina pleads with Meredith to come with her, but Meredith has serious doubts. But when Meredith discovers Selina has left the stump and gone to a creepy river in the middle of the night, Selina reveals a secret she has learned from the elder-rabbits: The Moon River Raft is arriving tonight and will take all Woundeds to a perfect place where injuries are healed and no predators exist. While the rest of her rabbit colony has ostracized her as a “magnet of death,” her sister, Meredith, remains loyal and plans to keep her safe by hiding her in a tree stump forever. When the rabbit, Selina, breaks her leg, she knows she will not survive long in a forest filled with predators. It runs around 15 minutes, but fits within the realm of many typical 10-minute plays. Also, Uncle David is definitely the worst out of the cast in this film, I'm glad that there shouldn't be any more scenes with him soon.**NOTE: This is not quite 10-minute play. You can't tell us as your audience that something is bad and wrong, and then expect us to laugh at it un-ironically. Again, what is with the tone here? You have a child being dragged through social services and legal investigations because these people have emotionally damaged her, yet those are the characters you continue to have as your comic relief? How does that make sense? The actual Disney cartoon of Cinderella -you know, the film aimed at kids younger than whoever this film is aimed at- had a much better evil stepmother because she was genuinely scary (anyone remember that scene where her eyes flash green in the dark, as she angrily realses Cinderella was at the ball?). Indy leaves one of the offices and catches a glimpse of the pair, who perform their routine for her and the social worker she's with, but stop it as soon as their gone. We see Clarisse and David at an office waiting room, where Clarisse practises fake crying and David rehearses being a decent human being. Also, Indy mentions in voice over that her aunt is called Clarisse, and I remember this from the trailer now. There's nothing particularly critical I can or want to put here, I just wanted to point it out because I think it's interesting that people are choosing to continue this theatrical element to the screen and I am curious to know why that is. However, that has nothing to do with the original fairy tale. I think that this must be a callback to the pantomime character "Buttons", who appears in most family friendly theatre productions of Cinderella as someone whose love for the titular character is unrequited, although he is generally comedic. It's interesting how in the Cinderella retelling films I've seen (notably 1998's Ever After and 2004's A Cinderella Story, which I now firmly promise not to reference again unless I feel it is absolutely necessary), that the Cinderella character always has a close male friend who is never in the running to be a potential love interest for her, though he is implied to have unrequited, unspoken affections for her. Indy is later joined at lunch by her best friend, Maxton.
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