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Limboland: A One-Act Play About Death, For Kids, Megan Huggins

Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects

LimboLand: A One-Act Play about Death, for kids

Megan Huggins

Thesis Director: James Al-Shamma, Ph.D

Thesis Committee: Shawn Knight, Jessica Mueller

A loose adaptation of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem Inferno, LimboLand uses Alighieri’s model of the nine circles of Hell to illustrate the five stages of grief. In a script designed for theatre for young audiences, Dante, a young child, travels through different rooms as he attempts to cope with and understand his sister’s death. Dante follows Virgil, an older child, who knows a lot about the afterlife system without understanding any of it. The play includes an appendix …

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, The University Of Maine School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a 45 min touring version of the classic short story by Washington Irving. The play will bring to life the tale of Ichabod Crane through a company of 13 actors and 5 technicians.