The Play

Toward the end of our beautiful green festival will be the culminating event of the day, a wonderful, family friendly piece written by Y.York.

Y York writes with passion and delivers a powerful appeal for personal freedom and idiosyncratic behavior.
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

She makes her points by not taking herself too seriously,even as she offers astute observations about environmental, racial, and family matters.
-NY Times

 

Green Arts Fest brings you our intrepretation of Miss York’s beautiful play “The Last Paving Stone”

Everyone is celebrating the placement of the last paving stone covering the last unpaved patch of ground on the planet—that is, everyone except Ito, a girl with ears so big she can hear the ground talking. Everyone else thinks Ito’s “sound from the ground” is her attempt to justify her humiliatingly large ears. Even Jassmin, a lass with a nose so big she can smell a lie, doesn’t believe in Ito’s sound. Threatened with the forever-silenced ground, Ito risks the ire of her Pa to share the ground sound (“spoken” in music) with normal-eared people.

This modem comic fable about being different and sustaining the environment was workshopped atThe Sundance Playwrights Lab and premiered at Idaho Theatre for Youth. In Idaho, the Voice of the Ground was “spoken” by a brass-percussion quartet playing a score written by Wayne Horvitz & Robin Holcomb. At Honolulu Theatre for Youth, the Ground was played by the legendary Hawaiian musicianHenry Kapono.

Our presentation will take place at 5:00 pm and will consist entirely of recycled materials!! That’s right! every costume piece, every set dressing everything you see on stage is recycled – well of course- except for the actors – BUT then again actors are constantly recycling themselves to play new people in new plays all over the place- so isn’t an actor, a character – rather recycled too??!? Makes for a great discussion!