Safe Harbor
There are stars, but you don’t need a rocket to get there — Just one rung, and another, and up you climb.
Yumarie Morales as Makayla in the Safe Harbor Premiere, Lower Depth Theater Ensemble
Synopsis
What Sasha Jones wants more than anything else is to have her mother back -- or maybe just to go to the mall. Mikayla Reese wants, someday, to go to space. Or maybe a home to call her own. But they can't have those things -- not now, not ever. Still, clinging to the impossible as they find themselves in increasingly dangerous circumstances, they have to make increasingly desperate choices, or face increasingly treacherous consequences. All they want is a safe harbor -- but the road there seems both long and difficult.
Cymya Wynne and Jason Delane Lee
cast
JUNE RICHARDS 30s. Black. Once a victim herself, now a victim's advocate, looking for her next step.
SASHA JONES 12. Black. A girl in mourning, a girl about to be a woman, teetering on the edge of something wonderful and terrible.
MIKAYLA REESE 14. Black. A very smart girl who's been let down by just about everyone she's ever known. As the play begins, she's run away from a terrible foster home, and is placed in a group home, which turns out to be also terrible.
MICHAEL JONES Mid-30s. Black. Sasha's father. A man struggling to keep it all together.
CHRISTINE JONES late 20s, early 30s. Black. Michael's younger sister.
LUCAS 30s. White. June's boyfriend.
DAVIS A young female LAPD officer (played by the actress who plays Aunt Christine)
JAZ 20s, a working girl (a bottom bitch) (played by the actress who plays Aunt Christine)
TOMMY 30s, a counselor at a group home (played by the same actor playing Lucas)
ROBBIE 30s, a street-smart opportunist/good samaritan (played by the same actor playing Lucas)
NOTE: While Sasha and Mikayla are teenagers, you may want to avoid casting actual teenagers, and instead cast actresses in their late teens or early twenties who can play younger.
Yvonne Huff Lee and Cymya Wynne
production history
November 2019 Zephyr Theater, Lower Depth Theater Ensemble, Director: Anita Dashiell Sparks
(Lower Depth’s first commission in their Cycle of Violence Commission Series, starting in 2017)