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Synopsis - a full-length play about 9/11, the title inspired by the moon having been in waning crescent phase the morning of the attack. It's a fast-paced piece, with eight actors taking on 25 roles in a landscape littered with witches, a street preacher, prophecies, omens, burning Bibles & Qur'ans & books on Dianetics. There's a commuter train and an airplane on collision course. And a man convinced Mia Farrow is sending him telepathic love messages. At rise, it's early morning 9/11. Mohammed Atta boards a plane for the last time, while 300 miles to the south, a New Jersey Transit commuter train sets out from Gladstone station for Summit, NJ, with connections to the World Trade Center. The passengers we meet seem to be on weirdly destructive personal missions. Mister Atta encounters four tempters, among them Santa Claus and Hitler. Santa shows him nude pictures of martyrs’ brides. Hitler declaims on the "truth of lobsters." And all the while shining down, the moon spawns its own dark lunacy.

Mohammed's Moon was developed at the South Coast Repertory Practicum. Award-winning dramaturg Scott Horstein read and critiqued the manuscript. Of the play, the Interact Theatre in Philadelphia commented, “The writing is daring and original and succeeds in carrying a number of daunting topics with clarity and cleverness.” Playwright Cecilia Fannon wrote, “It's inventive, upsetting, compelling, savvy, visionary. And one wild ride.”