To Tokyo & The Moon
by Steve Yockey

Name: To Tokyo & The Moon
Brand: Steve Yockey
SKU: 9780573711879

To Tokyo & The Moon Book Cover — To Tokyo & The Moon Cover

Highlights

Female

One Act 40 mins Present Day Role(s) for Asian Actor(s) All Women Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

A mother and her two daughters return home from their father’s funeral not quite ready to move on.

One daughter is struggling with her boyfriend, the other wants to literally go to the moon, and mom just wants to live on and be a good host to the unknown Japanese woman she ushered home from the cemetery.

Originally a commission from The Kennedy Center to celebrate the centennial of President Kennedy’s birth, To Tokyo & The Moon invokes his spirit of “doing the hard thing… because that is the challenge we are willing to accept.”

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Janet A young woman, Beverly’s older daughter, acts too hip to care, but is really struggling.	female	—	A young woman, Beverly’s older daughter, acts too hip to care, but is really struggling.
Susan A young woman, Beverly’s younger daughter, full of spirit, bold, and incredibly stubborn.	female	—	A young woman, Beverly’s younger daughter, full of spirit, bold, and incredibly stubborn.
Sakura A woman, Japanese, lovely and patient, very Pierre Cardin circa 1960s, visiting the United States. She’s frankly confused by her current situation but far too polite to speak up.CHORUS – A group of people, various and sundry experts in the many aspects of astrophysics.	female	60s	A woman, Japanese, lovely and patient, very Pierre Cardin circa 1960s, visiting the United States. She’s frankly confused by her current situation but far too polite to speak up.CHORUS – A group of people, various and sundry experts in the many aspects of astrophysics.
Beverly A woman, sardonic, exhausted, but a picture of poise and humor in the face of epic loss.	female	—	A woman, sardonic, exhausted, but a picture of poise and humor in the face of epic loss.