About the Play:

In a Blue Moon is full-length drama by Lucia Frangione. After her dad dies, six-year-old Frankie and her mom move to a cottage where they meet Uncle Will. Over time, a tender and unlikely love story emerges as the three discover a new understanding of family. With strong writing and characters, In a Blue Moon is a complex, authentic story about three people learning how to live with each other after such a profound loss.

In a Blue Moon is a visually beautiful tale about creating a new life in a new landscape. When Frankie's dad dies, her mom, Ava, can't afford to live in the city anymore. But the only asset they're left with is a farmhouse situated on 20 acres of land far outside of town. Ava decides to move there and start an Ayurveda clinic on the property, and at the same time give her precocious and grieving daughter a new start. One problem presents itself, though: a squatter who won't leave. Will – a professional photographer, long-estranged brother-in-law to Ava, and uncle to Frankie – lives rent-free on the farm and isn't eager to give up his space. What starts as a tense relationship develops in unexpected ways as Frankie finds a role model in her uncle and Ava grows attached to the companionship of this other man. In a Blue Moon combines memory, dance, photography, and heartfelt emotion to examine three characters who each grieve in quite different ways. Along the way they discover love, compassion, and companionship as each member of the trio finds peace in their new reality, in their own way.

Blue Moon premiered with The Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver in 2015 and then toured in 2016 to the Surrey Arts Centre, Western Canada Theatre Company in Kamloops, and then on to Thousand Islands Playhouse in Gananoque, Ontario.

Cast: 1 female, 1 male, 1 girl

What people say:

"At the end I wanted more. My neighbour put it very well. She said, 'It's like reading a really good book and you don't want it to end.' Exactly!" — North Country Public Radio

"While it's normal to mourn someone's death, it's the rift that develops in a family after that death that is at the heart of ... In A Blue Moon ... endearing and touching, and sometimes funny." — Kingston Whig-Standard

"With strong writing and characters, In a Blue Moon is a complex, authentic story about three people learning how to live with each other after such a profound loss." — The Peak

About the Playwright:

Lucia Frangione is an internationally produced award winning Canadian playwright and actor, best known for performing in her own works. The author of over twenty-eight plays, she received training through Studio 58 and Rosebud School of the Arts.