june, 2017
02junallday24In the Valley of the ShadowKatherine Cortez
Show Info
In the Valley of the Shadow by Katherine Cortez An apocalyptic event in an LGBT Nightclub changes everything; love becomes hate, hate becomes love. Directed by Elina de Santos Produced by Heather L.
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Show Info
In the Valley of the Shadow by Katherine Cortez
An apocalyptic event in an LGBT Nightclub changes everything; love becomes hate, hate becomes love.
Directed by Elina de Santos
Produced by Heather L. Tyler
World premiere play by Katherine Cortez, inspired by a collision of events: growing up in an Orlando with no openly gay nightclubs; witnessing family friends hiding in shadows and losing lives to AIDS before it had a name; completing the AIDS LifeCycle ride; and The Pulse night club shooting on the eve of LA PRIDE.
The play reflects on how fundamentalist belief systems can give a perverse inspiration to the execution of hate in the name of “love.” Exploring our duality as human beings – a paradoxical species capable of both violence and its opposite – the play challenges audiences to examine our darker parts in order to integrate the shadow and move towards the light, transforming hate into love.
Special performance and reception on the one-year marker of the tragedy on June 11th, the day of PRIDE celebration and #ResistMarch.*
Learn More at roguemachinetheatre.com/ and http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4749
Playing
june 2 (Friday) - 24 (Saturday)
Venue
Rogue Machine Theatre @ The Met
1089 N. Oxford; LA, CA 90029
