Dramaturgical Notes by Solomohn 'Piebald' Ennis, Dramaturg Aqua Beats and Moon Verses is today's woman's voice and declaration for freedom and equality. Its theme’s purpose is to explain the inner-thoughts and feelings of each woman who desires to be acknowledged for the strength of her love, the vulnerability of her womaness, her everyday life lived and death died for freedom, the queen mother earth she represents, and the indomitable legacy that she will leave behind. Veronica Bohanan and Camillia Williams describe Aqua Beats and Moon Verses as a continuation of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf", and an extension of Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues". In their own words, "It picks up where Colored Girls and Vagina Monologues left off". Aqua Beats and Moon Verses succeeds at deserving the comparison to Shange’s and Ensler’s works by, at first, being a well-crafted, impartial choreopoem that is indubitable and poignant; and, secondly by candidly and fiercely describing the female life experience through women. Aqua Beats and Moon Verses travel through time from childhood to adulthood, from Chicago to London to D.C., from heaven to hell, from woman to man, from man to woman, and back to self. At self, it is discovered that the rainbow is enough, that the beats and verses of life are satisfyingly sufficient, that being woman is toilsome, yet exquisite, and that being black is beautiful. Aqua Beats and Moon Verses portrays the courageous characteristics of women. It interprets women’s lives, music, and poetry. This is the sistas’s artistic, hiphopera confession of womanhood. --Solomohn 'Piebald' Ennis, Dramaturg