A series of three short films that take place in one afternoon at a local hospital.
- "Danny Boy" sees a middle-aged man rush to the bedside of his estranged terminally ill father in an attempt to make amends before the inevitable occurs.
- "Special Delivery" takes place just before, during, and directly after the events of "Danny Boy." A young man stands at a hospital nursery window, flush with excitement over becoming a new father when he is joined by a friendly, yet mysterious man who quests him with a sacred mission.
- "Hospital Food" occurs directly after the events of "Special Delivery" when our two main characters meet (for the second time) and each man is able to answer questions of the heart for the other.
"All That's So" is the music video about the events just seen in the three short films.
Writer Statement:
These three pieces were written by me, and based on the experience that my husband (Brian Douglas Barker) went through when his father passed away in 2016. They had been estranged for over a decade, and Brian learned of his imminent passing through a happenstance phone call. In "Danny Boy," Claudia was fictionalized, in order to give the audience some exposition, as was his father's decision to go to church/potentially convert. We have no real idea if that happened or not.
However, the memories he mentions as Danny, the prayer, the nurse, the singing at the bedside, the forgiveness...all really happened, and when he came home and told me about it, with his permission, I wrote the original story. I added both "Special Delivery" and "Hospital Food" as a way to give Brian some fictional closure along with his real-life closure.
After the scripts were done, I commissioned Josh Martin to write a song based upon the scripts, intending to use clips from the future shorts to tell their story in abbreviation. I liked the idea of a man saying goodbye to his father, and another young man becoming a father for the first time. I also loved the idea of the supernatural element of an entity who spends his life with death, coming to the hospital nursery to feel the hope that new life brings.
I hope the stories move you as much as they moved me.
Director Biographies:
Jill Barnes-Moore and Ashley Raymer-Brown are two of the founders of the community theatre "The Theatre Downstream." When the pandemic shut down all theatres in the country, Jill and Ashley banded together with five other community theatre directors (including Matt) from their home theatre to create a 12-part episodic internet show entitled, "The Lemonade Jamboree."
Each episode was around 20 minutes long and featured an original sketch, monologue, or poem. It was filmed in the summer of 2020 with all safety protocols enacted, and can happily report no cases of covid for any cast or crew. The three shorts included here, plus the music video written and performed by Josh Martin, are all a part of that series.
The series is available for purchase at: [ Ссылка ]
