Facing East

A Drama By Carol Lynn Pearson

Doors Open 7 PM Play Starts 7:30
Location. 234 North Main
Tickets $10.00

The story deals with a Mormon couple confronting the suicide of their gay son. The problems inherent in dealing with this emotional and ideological divide are universal to all humans, let alone any particular religious group.
The three characters—father (Alex), mother (Ruth) and gay partner of the deceased (Marcus) — meet for the first time at Andrew’s grave following the funeral. The audience “becomes” the congregation in a new funeral the father is giving for his son, this time a funeral that speaks the truth. There are “memory moments” in which each parent relives important times in the past, during which the other parent speaks the son’s lines from the darkness. The only time we “see” the deceased son is toward the end when his partner “becomes” him in memory. These stylistic devices make us yearn to actually see and hear Andrew, but we cannot. Neither did most of us truly see or hear him when he was alive.

“Facing east is presented through special arrangement with Leicester Bay Theatricals. All authorized materials are supplied by LBT, www.leicesterbaytheatricals.com