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Title 

POP! 

Playwright  

Cianon Jones 

Director 

TBD

Stage Manager 

Reading SM TBD 

Category 

New Play Festival, Staged Reading 

First Rehearsal 

TBD 

Performances 

May 5th  

Roles to be cast 

Age (Presentation) 

Gender (Presentation) 

Description 

Treasure 

Should feel aged 

any 

A fir tree 

Bind 

Grown but not nearly old 

any 

An oak tree 

Gift 

Grown but not nearly old 

any 

A birch tree 

Gwo 

Grown but not nearly old 

any 

A willow tree 

Auburn 

Old enough to know enough 

any 

An obsessive human 

Go-Go 

Old enough to know better  

any 

A fearful human 

Memory 

Young in feeling and knowledge 

any 

A caterpillar who eventually becomes a butterfly 

Roadkill Carcass 

 

any 

A dying opossum  

Mudda 

At a twisted age 

any 

A murderous deer on the loose 

Rain 

Freshly made 

any 

A rain drop falling from the sky 

Picidae Aves 

anything 

any 

A woodpecker 

Owl 

anything 

any 

An owl 

Shroom #1 

Young & scrappy 

any 

A possibly poison mushroom 

Shroom #2 

Young & scrappy 

any 

A possibly poison mushroom 

Shroom #3 

Young & scrappy 

any 

A possibly poison mushroom 

A Sapling 

newborn 

any 

A sapling of an unknown tree 

Forest Chorus 

various 

any 

All of nature’s energies in the forest; everyone is the forest chorus 

Synopsis 

POP! explores the proximity of humanity and nature through a forest that is very much alive and deliriously in danger. 

Notices 

Mentions/portrayals/inferences to: carnage, murder, human cruelty, animal cruelty, blood, death, drug use, destruction, questionable things of the natural and unnatural world 

Important Dates/Holidays 

3/30 Ougadi/Ugaadi, 3/30 Eid al-Fitr (End of Ramadan)*, 4/4 Qing Ming Jie, 4/6 Ram Navami, 4/10 Mahavir Jayanti, 4/12-4/20 Passover*, 4/13 Theravada (New Year), 4/18 Good Friday,  4/18 Good Friday (Orthodox), 4/20 Easter, 4/20 Easter (Orthodox),5/1 Beltane-Samhain, 5/5 Cinco De Mayo, 5/11 Mother's Day, 5/12 Vesak- Buddha Day, 5/12-16 Spring Finals, 5/17 Commencement, 5/17 Armed Forces Day, 5/26 Memorial Day (Observed), 5/29 Ascension Day, 5/31 Duan Wu Jie, 6/1-3 Shavuot*, 6/8 Pentecost, 6/14 Flag Day, 6/15 Father's Day, 6/19 Juneteenth (Fed. Observed), 6/20 Summer Solstice-Litha, 6/23 Pentecost (Orthodox) 

 

Cast List

Cast Lists will be posted by noon on Sunday, March 30th.

Contact

Stage Manager: TBD

NPF Production Stage Manager: savanha-moore@uiowa.edu