The Yellow Boat
2020-2021 TFAC SHOW
Charity Children's Mercy Hospital- Hemophilia Center
Watch A Performance!!
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Poster Designed by Brenden Blue; Original Artwork by Benjamin Saar
Theatre III/IV will produce this year's annual Theatre For A Cause (TFAC) production of The Yellow Boat. This is a heart-wrenching and heart-warming story a young father wrote about his young son's hemophilia in the 1980s. This is definitely a show you do not want to miss!
About the Play
Genre: Drama; Artsy
Length: Full Length Play Approximately 75-90 Minutes
The story of The Yellow Boat is a glorious affirmation of a child's life and the strength and courage of all children. This dramatization is based on the true story of David and Sonja Saar's son, Benjamin, who was born with congenital hemophilia and died in 1987 at the age of 8 of AIDS-related complications. A uniquely gifted visual artist, Benjamin's buoyant imagination transformed his physical and emotional pain into a blaze of colors and shapes in his fanciful drawings and paintings. A Scandinavian folksong tells of three little boats: "One was blue, one was red and one was yellow as the sun. They sailed far out to sea. The blue one returned to the harbor. The red one sailed home, too. But the yellow boat sailed up to the sun." Benjamin always concluded bedtime ritual by saying, "Mom, you can be the red boat or the blue boat, but I am the yellow boat." Benjamin's remarkable voyage continues to touch audiences around the world.
Length: Full Length Play Approximately 75-90 Minutes
The story of The Yellow Boat is a glorious affirmation of a child's life and the strength and courage of all children. This dramatization is based on the true story of David and Sonja Saar's son, Benjamin, who was born with congenital hemophilia and died in 1987 at the age of 8 of AIDS-related complications. A uniquely gifted visual artist, Benjamin's buoyant imagination transformed his physical and emotional pain into a blaze of colors and shapes in his fanciful drawings and paintings. A Scandinavian folksong tells of three little boats: "One was blue, one was red and one was yellow as the sun. They sailed far out to sea. The blue one returned to the harbor. The red one sailed home, too. But the yellow boat sailed up to the sun." Benjamin always concluded bedtime ritual by saying, "Mom, you can be the red boat or the blue boat, but I am the yellow boat." Benjamin's remarkable voyage continues to touch audiences around the world.
This Year's Cause
This year's cause is Children's Mercy Hospital, specifically the Hemophilia Center, as this connects to our story this year directly. This is such a wonderful cause to support, and help children and their families in need. This year we are accepting BOTH financial and toy donations. Toy donations will need to be completely packaged due to COVID safety (ie. no stuffed animals or dolls not in a box, etc.).
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