HEAVENLY SUNLIGHT

by Darryl Curry

HEAVENLY SUNLIGHT takes place in 1984 in the home of a middle-class black family from Haines, Illinois, on the occasion of Calvin (Cal) Thorne’s thirty-fifth birthday. Family pathology is the underlying theme: the ideological brick wall that separates Ben and Cal (father and son); the enabling of Lily toward Cal (mother and son) and her unspoken dread; Jean’s pressure to be the perfect daughter; and Ben’s feeling of invisibility. With the arrival of relatives, the Thomases – Miriam, Ben’s older sister; Abe, Miriam’s conservative husband; and Harris, their son who is on the spectrum – comes competitiveness, resentments, the gay baiting of Cal, and a well-kept family secret. It is a play about dreams deferred, moments missed and great expectations.

• Cast Size: 4M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

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About the Playwright

Darryl Curry is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Episcopal Actors’ Guild and is the director of music at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church in NYC. A composer/playwright, he is the author of two plays, The Pull and Heavenly Sunlight; a performance monologue, Time’s Here,which was produced in Atlanta by The Parenthesis Theatre Club. He has written the musicals The Elephant Piece (produced by The Third Step Theatre Company, NY, New England Premiere by Snowlion Rep, Portland, ME); Quitters (produced by Third Step); George Q;Mesmerized; Dorian Gray and Buzz, Son of a Bee, an actor’s life for me and Glamour & Grit, a 2021 Semifinalist of the O’Neill Music Theater Conference.  He wrote incidental music for the 20^th Anniversary Production of The Elephant Man (NYC) and has two commissioned works – The 46^th Street Mass (St. Clement’s Episcopal Church) and the sung ballet My Shadow(Staten Island Ballet). He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Temple University, and the American Musical & Dramatic Academy.