The Boy and the Rainbow, 2002
Fort Lewis College

The Boy and the Rainbow is a mythical fairytale about a boy in search of a black dragon. To find this black dragon the boy must traverse a world of magical tribes and strange creatures. The black dragon that he so desperately seeks is destroying this mythical kingdom and only the boy can help. Many paths are crossed and many lessons are learned.

The Boy and the Rainbow was an experiment in choose your own adventure theatre and creation through resources. The major arcana of the tarot deck was the main resource for story creation. All the characters that the boy meets are based on a card from the major arcana in a tarot deck. By connecting each character to a tarot card we were able to do an audience reading every night intermixed with the boy's adventure. The vastness of possibilities offered up by the tarot cards allowed our troop to delve deep into character development as well as self awareness. Every performance the boy learned, the actors learned, and the audience learned something unique to that night.