GOLD

“People of River, Behold…You’re Sittin’ On Gold!”

GOLD is a coming of age adventure about dark obsessions, local legends, and what happens when we seek validation outside of ourselves.

When high school outcast Lea King discovers her estranged Grandpa Ben is out in rural Colorado looking for buried treasure, she runs away to be with him. But when she arrives, she finds he’s missing. With the help of teenage local, Corey, she embarks on a quest to find both her grandfather and the most elusive treasure in all the west: “Faith’s Gold.”

Meanwhile, in 1870 Colorado, a Preacher’s daughter, named Faith, longs for a civilized life out east. When traveling widower, Bartholomew, claims to know how to mine unseen gold from underneath their town, she wonders if he might be her way out.

Both timelines converge when Lea is forced to reckon with her increasingly obsessive behaviour, and she realizes that Faith’s Quest might not be what it seems.

DEVELOPMENT:

• AEA Reading at Tisch, NYU 2019.

• 2020 presentation at The Hayes Theatre Company, Sydney, Australia.