“It evolved when the character is also evolving,” says Laxton. Throughout Moonlight Chiron’s character maintains a sense of childlike behavior that carries into his adulthood. “There are ...

Three time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chiron is presented. When a child, Chiron lives with his single, crack addict mother Paula in a ...

It was Moonlight's time. As in the movie version, the play followed main character Chiron over three periods in his life, but those timelines were interwoven throughout. Jenkins, who penned the ...