Join The Wilbury Theatre Group of Providence, RI, thespians from Brown University and the Providence Gay Men’s Chorus in a theatrical evening of remembrance and reflection in response to the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. The event is part of an collaboration between more than 50 stages worldwide.
“After Orlando,” starts at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1, at the Granoff Center, Studio 1 at Brown University. For tickets and details, check out the event’s webpage or call (401) 400-7100. The event is free with donations collected for Youth Pride RI at the door.
The Providence production, which features short works by nine playwrights, is presented by TAPS at Brown and the Wilbury along with the Trinity/Brown Consortium and Rites and Reason Theatre. The international project is a collaboration between New York’s Missing Bolt Productions and NoPassport Theatre Alliance, which together reached out to theaters around the world to solicit playwrights to create work in response to the tragic events in Orlando and to stage showing between September and December this year.
Says an October 27 Providence Journal posting:
The program consists of “low-key” readings of the plays with scripts in hand, and many of the actors will be dAngelo’s students, some of whom are minorities and/or identify as LGBTQ. A further collaboration with Rites and Reason Theatre, of Brown’s Africana Studies department, means one of that company’s actors will be part of the “After Orlando” cast. …
“We’re giving students the firsthand experience in the performative role of the theater to provide healing,” she says, adding that the show also reminds people of the tragedy, which she says has “evaporated from the media. What happens to those families and victims? Things like this have become commonplace and it’s not acceptable. But the theater has the power to challenge such notions.”
