Our Title

Thought I’d share with y’all a little bit about our show’s title…

We began work on this show in mid-June, but our paperwork to the Fringe Festival was due in early June. This included things like our guide description, title of the show, running time of the show, a guide photo or image and all sorts of other information that we didn’t have. We didn’t even know what we wanted the show to be about! We had a couple ideas floating around, for sure. The two that came through the strongest in our final conception of the show were the book “The Little Prince” (and its thematic content) and our families’ immigration stories. There were a few other things whose remnants made our final piece, including the circus, use of shadows, etc., but those were some of the items that we hoped would be major building blocks.

So, we brainstormed a list of titles that were general enough that they could suit a show we didn’t yet know very much about and also specific enough to have some sense of character.

One of the things I did when creating this list was read through “The Little Prince”. This resulted in a list of titles including “I believe that for his escape”, “Migration of Wild Birds”, “For his escape”, “Fourty-Four Sunsets”, and a few others. We put this together with a miscellaneous list we had assembled (“A second silence”, “Uprooted/Migration”, “Three Oranges”…) and made some choices.

In any case, our title lives in this passage from The Little Prince, towards the bottom:

Having now completed his Preparations For Departure

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