Time is a Color and the Color is Blue
by Melanie Coffey
A glaciologist, Whittaker, is snowed into an ice cave while searching for the oldest known cave paintings. As her team waits out the storm in their lab, her mind begins to spiral, memories and guilt melding and folding in on each other just like pressurized ice thousands of feet below the surface. Trapped and losing oxygen fast, Whittaker must confront how she can ask forgiveness from the Earth, from the ice cave, from loved ones she's hurt, and from herself. But how can you ask forgiveness of a thing that melts when you hold it?The script is available for purchase and licensing here.
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As part of the Avalanche Next Draft Series, Melanie and I worked together over the course of three months to take the script from second draft to a staged workshop production. Full workshop production credits here.
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Chosen as Avalanche’s first full production in three years, Melanie and I got the chance to revisit the script and make additional edits. I also did production dramaturgy for the process. Full production credits are here, and the script is available for purchase and licensing here.
Maddy dramaturged this play in the folllowing iterations: