welcome to a taste of the year where everyone is a star this is the place where playwrights from around the country will come to showcase one scene is their way today star is shining bright on many many families that we know that are blended and we want to put out a message to those blended families so that they can understand that they're not the only was going through certain issues a certain problems but there are more people dealing with the exact same situation that they're dealing with and that there is hope regardless to the situation that they're here and what was some of the research that you did for this production well the gol that stick so that's the basic thing that we normally do before we write a play that's just we consider a basic foundation we want to make sure we get the information right we want to make sure we're tackling the problems right you know a lot of times there are issues and things that need to be addressed and because we don't do our homework we have a tendency of not dealing with those issues or been with that particular problem and we record have one of the things that i find really important when we are creating an atmosphere for the audience if you are sitting in your living room and you're watching t v or eating popcorn you know the audience should feel like they're right there with you i feel like when it it doesn't tie in if there's nothing there so it's not presented for us and the audience to connect to what's going on so you have a kitchen in your house ok i know i'm going to kitchen eat do whatever you know in the living room this is where you relax and that's what we wa there's a saturday the show starts at seven pm on the temp it's and we really like to allow the audience just to be able to come so at three thirty if those are purchased tickets would like you can buy tickets to the dinner well that was spire me going to theaters because you used to was a youth pastor at a particular church and we were trying to raise some money to have my youth go out of state and we got tired of doing the same thing selling candy doing carwashes we needed something that we thought would be inspiring and kind of get the youth warm so i got this idea about doing a play so i said you know what we're going to do a play we're going to do this play and then a month and a half that was i'd be alive so i started going to the library looking online i trying to find the plays but the problem with i couldn't find the play that was relatable and that's one thing that i'm really big on five is something that people can connect with is something that people can relate to or something that people can say you know what i understand what's going on here so after doing all my research and not being able to finally being found myself in a the particular i think the easiest person for me to write to in this particular story and i would have been zoe and the reason i'm saying that because i know a lot of people who go around and gossip and you know say the that they  should or i guess the best way to say it we've got a lot of people who go around who want to sweep around somebody else backdoor but don't want to clean around their own backdoor so zoe is a character that i can relate to because i grew up around a lot of people who  had the same characteristics so that was easy for me i would say the wife and i think simply because as a mother as a wife myself it's easy to put in what your thoughts are as a woman but also when we write looking at the male perspective as well so it brings it brings a different energy to it but it allows us to really write i would say a balance story because i can identify with the father but because a lot of men have issues and we don't really want to expose the issue that we have so i felt by i go on the bill with this particular one got i got use of the exposing a lot of things that me and tried to hide and cover up but they don't deal with so even if there was something that i saw god kind of revealing there were writing a play out of some issue that i was trying to cover up and even when i was gone and said it really well i really really want people to walk away encouraged i really want them to understand that they are not alone i want them to know that god has always got your back so no matter what issues you have god is there and i just think it's important that even as we do the plays we really really try to focus on deal with relevant issues and so any situation that happens in our plays we are our hope and belief is that somebody has gone through or may be going through it so when they walk away they know that i'm not the only one you know there is help there are you know there are people that we can talk to and it just it's we want to stay relevant and we just want to make sure that people get it me i just want people to walk away with hope period under this name or our company hope production but i will eat so many times we find ourself in situations or below or circumstances and while we've been with those situation a circle sound a lot of times we think that they've come we come to the end of the row and is no worse we can go but me i believe that there's a hope in every situation as long as you've got breath in your body there's hope and sometimes i really want people to grasp and no matter how bad the situation is or how bad things may be in your life that the hope there's always hope and a lot of times because we're based my hope is based in jesus christ i believe that's the greatest hope that you can have regardless to what your circumstance or regardless of what you're going through so that's my foundation that's masala rock and a lot of taiwan people may be going through the storms of life or they may be going through a tragedy ut it seems like i'm hearing and after seeing this production it's really based on love and hope giving encouraging people to move on or to good get past the circumstances that's correct story do your homework do your research do your homework just don't go out and just have an idea just decide to write it and don't just write it from your point of view trying to write a from a different perspective you know a lot of  stuck on writing things just from the way we see life but there's a lot of different way the selye does a lot of different angles in life so try to write it from a different angle just don't get caught right there from your angle and to any up income a playwright i would basically say do your homework first before you tackle the issue do your homework on it i mean one hundred percent agreement and like i said before we talk we want to stay relevant so even besides the research that's done  for example we talked about in the play we talk about a particular video game and you know even as we're looking at the news this game is come out recently and people have spent over eight hundred million in twenty four hours on this game and yet they also know on the other side that there is a lot of death and things connected to that so we try to even bring up things that are happening in the news because people can relate to that  life you can either call our phone number is eight four seven six seven two eight five nine six our website is w w w hope productions online dot com that's hope productions with an ass online dot ok again our number is eight four seven six seven two eight five nine six and our website is w w w dot hope productions online dot com star hello hello my name is a proud chair and i am with hope production i've been with them for a few years now and i absolutely love it my name is andre madison i play i play the role of zoe the busy no the christian woman hi my name is charlotte coleman and in the production play sherri and i am one of the good friends of one of the main characters carol when i was bryce smith played the role of gangster flo and with oh productions for two years now and this is my third show their awesome time and a great way to do minister my name is leslie but as saddle and i have been with hope productions for about five years now and i play the role of carol who is the wife and this wife has in her mind it made she feels like she knows it all she's been married for twenty years she experienced two years of courtship and living a chase life at home before she got married so she feels like she has all the answers  name is k smith and i've been with whole production for a couple years now and the character that i play is big toria and i was always busy busy busy always psychic mccauley played a father in this production and he's a mouse center man whose firm believe in god and tries to raise this family in a godly atmosphere and he just got issues so the biggest thing is god i got issues is really much speaking on him and the whole entire his whole entire family everyone in this play has issues in the play not a real life right seriously we all have issues so what it does is it speaks on all those issues whole meaning in helping other people excel you know it pretty much helps everybody excels in every situation in life it speaks on things that we're afraid to talk about in the church is free to talk about in the schools at home a lot of people don't discuss certain things at home because they keep forewarn the key is afraid to talk to their parents they feel like they're going to be they don't understand parents just don't understand and the end parents don't really talk about these things to the children because they feel like they're not old enough to understand certain things so what it does is it brings light to everything because like i say we're helping other people excel we allow the is out there to see man i'm dealing one of the kids in the audience could be dealing with their situation one of the parents to be going through this situation and even in a real production where you get blended families where we got a step son coming in and a wife and a father  really you know they have in their own issues at the house but then you've got some other another problem company and as one may see but it just speaks on that so people that have those issues outside may be able to relate to it and then they go home and make  one thing that i would hope people would walk away with is the fact that christ did die for our sins and he has all control and he's our future so don't hold onto your past those were things that were meant to get you to where you need to go and there's always a blessing in the lesson  one thing i hope people will learn is that your thoughts are not facts and sometimes your when you get into your thoughts you they'll take you everywhere and so just to deal  with your facts and again the fact is that christ has all the answers one thing i could say that i would want them to walk away with is you're an overcomer no matter what the situation is no matter was gone with you know with somebody  you overcome it may not be an m o me but it will happen one thing i want them to learn is that it is better to be upfront about anything and everything hold it brings back and china bottled up inside is face that's what you do but i want people to walk away from this play is the fact that we all have issues no one is exempt no one's perfect no one has all the answers but the only one that has all the answers and all the solutions to our problems is the lord and if we can run to him and put our lives in his hands and trust him and know that he holds our times in his hands and he knows the end of our lives at the beginning that all things will work together for the good to them that love him is definitely there as we try to strive to live for christ you know we are not perfect you know we are going to mess up and slip up when we're going to send but realizing that as we walk through this life that we're going to be tested we're going to have trials and challenges and it is about the choices that we make the decisions we make and how we how we endure through that i think if once we get up put ourselves out of the way and rely on christ then we know that we can lean on him for everything and he can get us through those situations so i want people to walk away the knowing that there is no perfect family there is no perfect person there is no perfect situation we all are going to be tested at some point and what i want people to learn is that even when you do fall because you will fall it's not about how you fall it's about how you get back up and not only how you get back to how you get back in line and go the right way so i think that's an encouragement for people i hope that people go away from the play with the always with you throughout everything that you do and that you will walk away knowing that when you fall down you can get back up and start all over again it's never too late i'm hoping that the audience will she yeah right