Tonight at the Someday Lounge, Penplay (group of screenwriters and playwrights dedicated to creating new work in Portland) present a workshopped version of Jessamyn Rae’s Boxes:
One last family Christmas. Alex returns to her childhood home in a last ditch effort to make her family accept, and maybe, understand her. Easter had been a disaster between coming out to her family, Uncle Ron calling her “it”, and no one willing to stand up for her. And this time, just an apology won’t do; her family is going to experience Alex’s world, where sexual identities are open for debate, socially imposed boxes are ripped apart, and people love beyond the surface.
How do you find an identity in a world in which you have no place? Boxes, by Jessamyn Rae, is not your usual “coming-out” story; it is a unique look at a young person rebelling against the gender identities or “boxes” placed upon us by society. “The problem is that most people foolishly believe that the body and the brain are always meant to match.”
Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th, $5 and up (sliding scale). The show will get a full production in January at the citywide Fertile Ground new works festival (tickets and info here)
I meant to tell you – I’ve watched “hamster on a piano” at least 10 times since last Friday.
Thank you.