The Boy in the Moon
By Emil Sher
BASED ON THE BOOK BY IAN BROWN
Weaving humour and searing honesty, author Ian Brown chronicled a life-changing journey that began when his son Walker was born with “an impossibly rare genetic mutation.” The book is subtitled ‘A Father’s Search for his Disabled Son.’ The quiet power of theatre can be transformative when a journey chronicled between the covers of a book is stretched and pulled in new directions on stage.
Voices are amplified: the stage version of The Boy in the Moon weaves in conversations Emil recorded with Walker’s mother, Johanna Schneller, and his sister, Hayley. Reflections that Ian shared beyond the world of the book —an interview in Australia, an online documentary — have also been stitched into the script. This acclaimed adaptation is fuelled by the same questions that power Ian’s prize-winning book, layered, tangled questions about Walker and our relationships with the Walkers of the world.
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