THE PINK UNICORN Comes to Northern Light Theatre

Northern Light Theatre will begin their 50th Season journey with a multi-award-winning Northern Light Theatre classic play. THE PINK UNICORN, by Elise Forier Edie, is the welcome return of a wonderful comedy/drama deftly opening up a relevant conversation about parents dealing with the pressures of a changing world as they try to protect, empower, and advocate for the rights of their children in our ever-changing social landscape. 

This one-woman play is about a mother and Christian widow in a Texas town who is thrown into turmoil when her daughter comes out as gender-queer, starting a Gay Straight Alliance at the local high school. Told through humour and honesty, and based on the life of the playwright, the mother starts a journey of acceptance as she empowers her child while advocating for the child's rights.

"I cannot believe after over a decade, this play is still relevant," says playwright Elise Forier Edie. "My gosh, in 2013 Facebook was still a fun site where you connected with old high school friends, and Google ads were still a little footnote on a page (as opposed to the whole point of the page) and AI was just a science fiction story. Twitter was still fun! So I was certain my little play was going to be a nice blip and then it would all be done. The idea that THE PINK UNICORN is still being performed regularly in theatres is astonishing to me."