Writer Visionary Pioneer Survivor
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Writer Visionary Pioneer Survivor *
Thea von Harbou’s extraordinary journey out from under the shadow of the men who would take the credit for her genius.
Woman in the Moon celebrates the loves, struggles, and sacrifices of a woman pivotal to modern filmmaking. The full scope of her achievements are largely unknown outside of the German-speaking world, but here, Harbou comes to life in an epic musical set against the backdrop of cultural censorship, two world wars, and genocide.
A versatile, female-forward ensemble. A highly original, dramatic score. A unique theatrical experience.
Award-winning creators composer John Mucci and author Richard Felnagle have have ultilized decades of theater and television experience to craft this two-act play requiring a minimum cast of six women and four men.
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Why a musical play about Thea von Harbou?
Thea von Harbou was an extraordinary woman whose loves and struggles and defeats and triumphs form a story of almost Shakespearean proportions. She is the story of the 21st century but in the first half of the twentieth century, and only a musical play can fully realize all the dimensions of her life, loves, and hardships. Today, she is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of director Fritz Lang and author of Metropolis and his other German films. However, she was so much more: At various times, she was an actor, an author, a director, a screenplay writer, an advocate for women’s reproductive rights and for animal rights, and more. She spent her entire life pushing up against the “glass ceiling” of the patriarchy of Weimar Germary, and then the authoritarian patriarchy of Nazi Germany. But she survived. And this is her story.
“There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.”
— Thea von Harbou, Metropolis
Let’s talk more about how to bring Woman in the Moon to your venue.
Ready to host a reading? Interested in a workshop? Questions about the script, score, or materials? We’d love to talk to you about our show!