Photo by Jeff Busby
Maybe it’s our age, but as our tenth-anniversary year creeps ever closer, we’re getting worse at keeping secrets. So here it is: The Cincinnati Review is proud to announce that we will, over the next few months, produce the graphic play Moth by Australian playwright Declan Greene.
Moth is the story of Anime-obsessed Sebastian and emo art-freak Claryssa as they awkwardly navigate the cruel social hierarchy of high school. A horrific event on the school’s athletic field threatens their friendship and sends Sebastian on an apocalyptic mission,whereby fantasy and reality intermingle with dangerous consequences. Written with dark wit that’s ultimately after your heart, Moth is an exploration of friendship, adolescence, loss, and mental illness. It is set to make its American debut at the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, in April 2014. Click here for a preview of the play, and then imagine it expertly illustrated.
The finished product will be a handsome 6×9-inch perfect-bound book, coming in at about 56 pages, which will be mailed (free of charge!) to our subscribers. So if you haven’t subscribed for our anniversary year, do so here.
We are hunting for a talented and enterprising illustrator to collaborate with Greene (for very respectable remuneration). If you are this illustrator or you know someone who is, please email our editors: editors[at]cincinnatireview[dot]com
More about the playwright: Declan Greene is a writer and theater-maker based in Melbourne. His plays include A Black Joy, Tame, Pompeii, L.A., and Moth, and have been produced at Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House, and The Storeroom. His awards include the Malcolm Robertson Prize (2010), the R. E. Ross Trust Playwright’s Development Awards (2007 and 2009), and the Green Room Award for Best Original Writing (2010). Alongside Ash Flanders, Declan runs D.I.Y. “trash-theatre” group Sisters Grimm.
