History Theatre / RubyMoon

* ActingForTwo: The play is written for two actors, who play not only Ray and Sylvie, but all of the neighbors. [[spoiler: This is important to the plot- at the end we find out that Ray and Sylvie are role-playing the interviews with each other as a way to try and make sense of Ruby's disappearance.]]

* FracturedFairyTale

* MacGuffin: Lots.

* MindScrew: ''And how.''
* MsFanservice: Veronica

* StepfordSuburbia
* TwistEnding
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Dulcie Doily is nothing more than the sum total of every pious, judgmental thought you've ever had!"]]

* AdultFear: The basic premise is based around this.

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] the [[GenkiGirl magical]] [[ManipulativeBastard guardian]] from Manga/CardcaptorSakura.

''It begins like a fairytale...''
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'...but how does it end?''
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* StrangeGirl: Dawn, Ruby's babysitter, who lives with her invalid parents across the street. She never goes outside, wears rubber bands on her face and spends all of her time making dolls.

* HoldMe

* FridgeHorror: If [[spoiler: Ray and Sylvie made up the Gallows' boy]], then ''who the fuck is knocking at the door?''

''Ruby Moon'' is an Australian play by Matt Cameron written in 2007. The story revolves around Sylvie and Ray Moon, a couple from the fictional town of Flaming Tree Grove, who are struggling to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their young daughter, Ruby, who left to visit her Grandma and never came back. The case has long gone cold, and they're almost ready to give up hope, until the arm of Ruby's doll turns up in their letter box. Desperate for answers, they go up and down the street and interview their neighbors about the incident. They encounter many eccentric characters, including a bible-thumping old woman, an ex-soldier who still lives with his mother, Ruby's creepy babysitter and even a mad scientist. Any one of them could be responsible. Through the play the couple are haunted by the presence of 'The Wizard'- a former runaway who returned home to find his parents had moved away. He is never seen, but will often knock on the Moons' door.

The play has recently become an HSC text at many high schools. It combines elements of absurdism, gothic horror, and fairy tales with the paranoia of post-9/11 suburbia as well as drawing inspiration from real-life headlines about missing children.

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] the [[GenkiGirl magical]] [[ManipulativeBastard guardian]] from CardcaptorSakura.