Once on This Island

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Licensing available through: Music Theatre International

 

Launch a rousing production of the Olivier Award-winning one-act musical Once on This Island. Grosh Backdrops and Drapery offers stage backdrops, curtains, and drapes that stage design professionals can use for recreating the story of a girl who found and lost love in a world of inequality.

We have a collection of backdrops depicting tropical landscapes that accurately depict the environment of the French Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean where Once on This Island is set. Whether you are looking for backdrop designs that portray forests or palm-dotted landscapes, weve got you covered.

Once on This Island is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty and a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. Adapted from the book My Love, My Love; or The Peasant Girl written by Rosa Guy, the musical is a poignant tale about Ti Moun, a poor island girl who rescues and falls in love with Daniel, a wealthy grande home who is a descendant of the archipelagos French plantation barons and their workers.

Unknown to Ti Moun, her meeting with Daniel was arranged by the capricious gods of the island, one of whom proposes a bet so that they can all find out which is stronger: love or death. At stake is the life of Ti Moun herself. In the end, Ti Mouns capacity to love is overwhelmed by the powerful forces of hatred, prejudice, and death. However, the gods turn her body into a tree, which becomes a symbol of life and love whose roots ultimately destroy the wall that separates the rich and the poor.

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