Description:
2f or nb, ensemble 3+
In a kingdom "far away from here yet very close," a king lies dying. His daughter, Sophi, can no longer stay put in her castle full of sickness and sadness. Convinced she can find a cure for her father's illness, she visits an oracle who gives her a Song of Instruction. Helped along by a group of playful stars, and intermittently visited by the (rather snarky) ghost of her sister, Sophi enters The Repository. In this magical realm, she meets a Counter-King and a host of other curious characters who send her on a scavenger hunt to uncover objects that will somehow save the day. In this play about memory, identity, grief and life and connectedness, Sophi will need to grasp who she is before she can try to put someone else back together.
Full of puns and poetry, wisdom and whimsy, and brimming with heart, a dream once lost explores the delicate journey of losing those we love while finding ourselves along the way.
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Brief description: Tia Shearer Bassett (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate artist whose body of work spans from "tiny play" scripts to comics to virtual theatre, and always features her favorite combination: silliness and beauty. As a writer, her works include a micro-chapbook, Fragments: Tiny Poems from a Cancer Survivor, available through Stripes Literary Magazine, and the graphic novel Wondrous Machines. As an actor, she has served as a member of Only Make Believe, performing interactive theatre in children's hospitals, care facilities and special education programs; an original company member at Arts on the Horizon, creating nonverbal shows for ages 0-6 and earning the title "Buster Keaton for babies;" and a member of Happy Theater, making family-friendly work like the award-winning interactive puppet show, The Light House. She has performed with The Second City and The Kennedy Center. She is an Audio Describer, co-creator of a web-series starring her leopard gecko: Eugene Cheese Gets It Wrong, and founding producer of The From-Home Fest. She lives in Takoma Park, MD with her husband, son, said leopard gecko, and a dog named after a video game character.