BEAST ON THE MOON TO BE STAGED IN CHICAGO

Armenpress
Nov 29 2006

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS: A theater in Chicago, USA, called
Trap Door will stage on December 10 Richard Kalinoski’s play "Beast
on the Moon," written in 1992, which has as its protagonists two 1915
Armenian genocide survivors.

The play since received great acclaim and has been staged all over
the world in regional and community theatres. Beast on the Moon is
a two-act play which depicts the lives of two Armenian genocide
survivors, beginning in 1921 when Aram Tomasian, the portrait
photographer, is 21 and his picture bride, Seta, is an orphan of 15.

This is a beautiful human drama of loyalty to one’s ancestors which
drags with it the constant reliving of a traumatic past, this is a
story of a young newly wed couple coming of age in America where hope
and self reinvention are possible.

According to Illinois state’s genocide education network, the play is
being staged to encourage genocide teaching. Last August the Illinois
State’s Assembly adopted a decision on mandatory teaching of Armenian
genocide at the state’s schools.