Coma Land
By Will O'Mahony
Performed — 2017 at Studio Underground
An epic tale of prodigies, parents and pandas.
Boon is smart. Really smart. She’s skipped four years of school, possesses a photographic memory and was playing Mozart and Beethoven aged two. So why is it so hard for her to wake up?
Coma Land tells the story of a child genius who finds herself trapped in a world between life and death. There, she meets Penguin, a young girl determined to fly, and they quickly become friends. But when her protective father stands between them and their escape, Boon soon learns that the one thing you can never outsmart is the truth.
From the daring and imaginative mind of Will O’Mahony (Tonsils + Tweezers, The Mars Project, Great White), comes a magical story celebrating children, difference, and the depths of parental love. An epic tale about pianos, prodigies, penguins and pandas, Coma Land asks, if it takes ten thousand hours to master something difficult, then why can it take a lifetime to accept something simple?
DIRECTOR Will O'Mahony
SET DESIGNER Patrick James Howe
COSTUME DESIGNER Rozina Suliman
LIGHTING DESIGNER Chris Donnelly
SOUND DESIGNER Rachael Dease
CAST INCLUDES Humphrey Bower, Kirsty Marillier, Amy Mathews, Morgan Owen, Ben Sutton
