Family Guide for Feeling Electric

Updated: May 11, 2005

Feeling Electric may not be appropriate for children ages 13 and under.

Because audiences have different opinions of what may be suitable for our younger patrons, the following information is provided to assist you when deciding what is appropriate for your family.

Please note: this guide contains plot spoilers.

Feeling Electric is a new musical; therefore, the information provided below is subject to change.

Click the title to hear the song.

"I Miss The Mountains"

"A Light In The Dark"

"I've Been"

"Feeling Electric"

Versions available to preview: As this is an original work, there is no version available to preview. The script is available at the Box Office for you to read.

Production length: TBD. There is one fifteen minute intermission.

Synopsis: Feeling Electric is a moving, edgy, darkly funny, and brutally honest look at one family's struggle with mental illness, at how families cope with pain, and at the way our society deals with and treats depression. A woman who has suffered from delusional depression since the death of her first baby struggles to keep family life sane for her supportive husband and surly teenage daughter. But when a hotshot young doctor recommends ECT (shock therapy) to cure the woman's ills, the entire family is set on a course that will change their lives forever. With tuneful, energetic rock music telling an adventurous and theatrical story, it's an unforgettable look at families, grief, recovery, and treatments that might be worse than the disease they are meant to cure.

Production Notes: This show has not yet been staged. Updates on any staged content will be added at a later date.

Sexual content: The woman talks about not having any sexual desire due to side effects of her medications. The teenage daughter sings about deciding to give her virginity away, and then does so.

Language:
Forms of God: twice
Damn, goddamn: multiple times
Hell: twice
Fuck: multiple times
Bitch: once
Other: cervix, penis envy

Substances: The woman sings about the many medications she's been on, the treatments she's received, and side effects. In addition, bong, being high, grass, and other drugs are mentioned. The teenage daughter shoots up one time and gets sick.

Violence: The woman attempts suicide, a previous attempt is discussed, the husband prepares for his own, the daughter wonders if she will. Husband sings about cleaning up from woman's attempt. There is a song about "So Many Ways To Die." The woman sings about planning the perfect suicide ("To Die For"). The doctor sings about what ECT does to your body, sings about voltage, "plug you in" and twitching. Woman receives treatment onstage during the song. Woman recalls the death of her baby (strangled by the umbilical cord when he was born).