Keystone Magazine Learning the Keystone Way 2015-2016 EN | Page 9

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here are many legends, around the world, about the
sun and moon as tragic lovers destined to be separated
by their inevitable state of nature, chasing each other
to the ends of time. But what if they were to find a way
to take matters into their own hands, and defy destiny?
At Keystone Academy, this was possible thanks to the
beautiful and brilliant Chloe Keller, middle and high school Drama
teacher and Director of the school’s Performing Arts Center. Ms.
Keller explains, “Elements was originally written to be a companion
piece to four circus-based shows, each rooted in a different ele-
ment: Earth, air, fire and water. But this story did not come to me…
And so it sat, incomplete, for two years…Creativity, like love, comes
not when it is bidden, but rather, in the heavy night, unburdened
by the scrutiny of day. And so I slept. I woke up at 3:30am, saw the
play in its entirety, and began to write it down furiously. By break-
fast, it was complete; two years and one night later.”
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