[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"siteSettings-header":3,"post-internal-reading-of-the-hardest-goodbye-by-chester-poon":6,"navigation":28},{"header_cta":4,"header_cta_url":5},"Get Tickets","/productions/fear-wonder",[7],{"id":8,"status":9,"date_created":10,"date_updated":11,"user_created":12,"user_updated":12,"title":13,"slug":14,"excerpt":15,"cover_image":16,"publish_date":17,"meta_title":15,"meta_description":15,"content":18,"cover_image_override":15,"tags":26,"gallery":27},"65ebbe92-5a71-46a9-8aac-0635cf118018","published","2026-03-20T04:01:06.554Z","2026-03-20T22:24:47.652Z","330cdc5a-6d3f-456c-aec8-de6c0e72ce85","Internal Reading of The Hardest Goodbye by Chester Poon","internal-reading-of-the-hardest-goodbye-by-chester-poon",null,"c5f721e0-5c8e-4a20-aee3-8db21b4bc350","2025-04-02",{"blocks":19,"version":25},[20],{"type":21,"data":22,"id":24},"raw",{"html":23},"After a joyful workshop of Chester Poon’s \u003Cem>The Hardest Goodbye\u003C/em> (then called \u003Cem>The Belle) \u003C/em>at the 2024 Flux Annual Retreat, Flux knew we wanted to keep developing this hilarious and loving play about YouTubers who go ghost hunting—and have their lives transformed when they meet the real thing. In this dark comedy, a very haunted house forces the characters to confront their own ghosts and demons.\n\nFlux will host a public workshop of the play later in 2025. On March 26, 2025, we held an internal reading of the play to help Chester develop it. Learn more about the reading and Chester's exciting new play on Substack \u003Ca href=\"https://fluxtheatreensemble.substack.com/p/the-heart-of-the-play-is-really-about\">here\u003C/a>.\n\nA huge note of thanks to the cast of the 3/26/25 internal read-through of \u003Cem>The Hardest Goodbye:\u003C/em> Aaron Parker Fouhey, Rachael Hip-Flores, Danielle Juliet Ma, Corinna Schulenburg, Mercena Schulenburg, Chris Wight, and Justin Woo. Rachael Hip-Flores was also the Lead Organizer of the reading.\n\n \n\u003Cdiv class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n\u003Cfigure>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"image2-inset\">\n\n\u003Cpicture>\u003Cimg class=\"sizing-normal aligncenter\" src=\"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c953e83-2e1e-480f-bdbe-f71e42ccbc5d_600x400.jpeg\" sizes=\"100vw\" srcset=\"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c953e83-2e1e-480f-bdbe-f71e42ccbc5d_600x400.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c953e83-2e1e-480f-bdbe-f71e42ccbc5d_600x400.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c953e83-2e1e-480f-bdbe-f71e42ccbc5d_600x400.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c953e83-2e1e-480f-bdbe-f71e42ccbc5d_600x400.jpeg 1456w\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-attrs=\"{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0c953e83-2e1e-480f-bdbe-f71e42ccbc5d_600x400.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":400,"width":600,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}\" />\u003C/picture>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"image-link-expand\">\n\u003Cdiv class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\">\n\u003Cdiv class=\"pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image\">\u003Cstrong>Chester Poon\u003C/strong> (he/him) is an actor and playwright. Credits with Flux include: \u003Cem>Jane the Plain\u003C/em> and \u003Cem>Rebecca Roman Redd at the Most Dangerous Hour.\u003C/em>\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\u003C/figure>\n\u003C/div>","5Eq5nfQlEE","2.25.0",[],[],[29,35,42,45,51,57],{"id":30,"label":31,"url":15,"sort":32,"is_external":15,"parent":15,"page":33},3,"About",1,{"slug":34},"about",{"id":36,"label":37,"url":15,"sort":32,"is_external":15,"parent":38,"page":40},5,"Retreat",{"id":39},4,{"slug":41},"flux-annual-retreat",{"id":39,"label":43,"url":15,"sort":44,"is_external":15,"parent":15,"page":15},"Programs",2,{"id":46,"label":47,"url":15,"sort":44,"is_external":15,"parent":48,"page":49},6,"Sharing Power",{"id":39},{"slug":50},"sharing-power",{"id":52,"label":53,"url":15,"sort":30,"is_external":15,"parent":54,"page":55},7,"Core Work",{"id":39},{"slug":56},"core-work",{"id":58,"label":59,"url":15,"sort":39,"is_external":15,"parent":60,"page":61},8,"Living Ticket",{"id":39},{"slug":62},"living-ticket"]