• Legends of Wildomar: Stage Production

Q: What happens when a group of Wildomar writers get together with the idea of penning a play about local legends? 

A: You get four tall tales, five songs and a poem that ties it all together.

I sat down with three longtime Wildomar residents and had a good gab... some of it was even about their play that is set to debut on Saturday, September 7th (with an encore performance the following week: Saturday, September 14th).

The three creatives (under the name StageLight Playwrights) are Karen Robertson, who moved to the area 48 years ago to take a job as a teacher in Murrieta where she was one of five teachers there. Suzanne Saunders came to Wildomar in 1997 to raise her daughter on horse property that was plentiful here at the time. Eve Gaal got her first house here in 1988. 

"This is a play written by Wildomar authors, in Wildomar, about Wildomar."

Karen and Suzanne have been neighbors for twenty-two years and they met Eve about two years ago at a writer's guild in Hemet. That's when the synergy kicked into gear and the three of them hooked up as a team. 

"But we're as different as you can get," Karen added with a grin. 

The Legends of Wildomar: A play in 6 acts.

I asked how the writing process went for this play, and I learned that they each wrote a "tall tale" about how Wildomar got its name. They would then meet once a week to share their progress and then to revise what they had. 

They got to the point that they brought readers in so that they could determine how well the dialog flowed, or didn't. With that input, they'd go back to revise and rewrite again until they were satisfied.

A shot of an early rehearsal.

There are five songs throughout the play, but it's not a musical. Each of the writers composed two apiece (hmmm my math is bad here  lol). There's the Wildy Mare song, Wilhelmina's song, La Palomar song and The Wildomar song. The play is going to be performed at Le Grande Playhouse at the Lakeland Village Community Center.

Ticket info. See link below to purchase.

Proceeds go to a good cause

As an aside, all three of the authors are cancer survivors, and $10 of every ticket sale goes to support BRICK. The mission of BRICK (Brain Research In Cancer Kids) is to improve the quality of life for pediatric brain tumor patients and survivors through the funding of brain tumor research carried out by Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego.

 Use this link to get your tickets

Link to Facebook event page

There are still opportunities to sponsor this play and get into the playbill. For more details about that, please feel free to contact StageLight. 

Link to StageLight Playwrights Facebook page

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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

– William Shakespeare

Wildomar Rap is not one to argue with The Bard. If he says the world's a stage, then it's a stage.

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