Tyke Dreams of Plumeria Stars
Tyke Dreams of Plumeria Stars
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Author(s): DeMoville, Kemuel
ISBN No.: 9781969833229
Year: 202602
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 15.11
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Tyke Dreams of Plumeria Stars draws from the haunting true story of Tyke, the circus elephant who in 1994 killed her trainer and ran through the streets of Honolulu, and filters that trauma through a lens of memory, myth, and cultural dislocation. Fractured and poetic, the play follows a Brother and Sister who were witnesses to the rampage and who remember the trauma like children remembering a monster. Now grown, the Brother cares for a Bound Man who is kept alive by machines and hate; the Sister, a soldier who has recently returned home, tries to reconcile love and loyalty with the echoes of war. Their world is punctuated by ghostly memories and inherited violence, mirrored in a narrative structure that splinters like a dream. Tyke Dreams of Plumeria Stars resists conventional storytelling, offering instead a theatrical elegy for broken families and histories that refuse to stay buried. The play is an exploration of violence, identity, and the ghosts we feel like we carry in our blood.


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