LGBTQ Holiday Performance of ELECTRICITY to Benefit The Lavender Effect

Thrilled to announce we're bringing the immersive production of ELECTRICITY in a motel room to LA for one night only on Monday, December 18, 2017, as a benefit performance for THE LAVENDER EFFECT. ELECTRICITY performance will launch THE LAVENDER EFFECT's "Queerstory Performance Series"

The benefit performance of ELECTRICITY, the hit LGBT comedy/drama starring Terry Ray ("My Sister is So Gay") & Mel England ("Best Day Ever"), marks the first of the Queerstory Performance Series, which is devoted to telling and capturing the LGBTQ history and cultural experience through theatre. The program is being shepherded by England, who recently joined THE LAVENDER EFFECT's Executive Board of Advisors.

Founding Director Andy Sacher announced the initiative saying "This new series is a natural extension of our Queerstory project devoted to LGBTQ and allied people telling their personal stories. We are thrilled to have Mel on board to help cultivate stories in theatre and other performance, and we look forward to more in 2018."

This special ELECTRICITY performance will be Monday, December 18 at 7:30pm at Thymele Arts 5481 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90029 Running Time: 90 minutes with no intermission. Ticket Cost: $25.00 Tickets sold at electricityplay.brownpapertickets.com.

A Holiday Soiree with drinks and refreshments will follow the 90-minute performance. $5 Parking is available at 1110 N Western Blvd., LA, CA 90029.

ELECTRICITY explores the journey of two gay men who hook up in a motel room after their tenth high school reunion in small town in Ohio. Gary is so closeted that he hides behind an invented a wife, and Brad is so reckless that he kills his pain with sex, drugs and alcohol because he can't see far enough into the future to believe he has one. Despite their differences, they have a connection which draws them back to that same motel room, and to each other, for every successive reunion from 1983 to 2013.

Playwright and veteran actor Ray, who plays Gary, said he wrote this play "to chronicle the journey that so many gay men who came of age in the 1970s and 1980s can readily relate to, the journey from a place where silence sometimes equaled death, to one where equality might just be a reality."

Off-Broadway and award-winning indie-film actor England returns to the stage to play the party-addicted Brad. "It's always great to come home to the stage and this play is one of the most exciting I've ever worked on," England said, adding "It's so incredibly personal, and it's an honor to be working with Terry Ray so intimately with the audience right there -- it really is electric!"

ELECTRICITY is performed monthly with an exclusive engagement at INNdulge in Palm Springs. ELECTRICITY is being presented in what's called Immersive Theater. Immersive Theater puts the audience in the same space as the performers. Walls are gone between the audience, the actors, and the action. Each show only has 20 audience members. The experience begins in with a High School Reunion Reception in the hotel. The audience members check in to the reunion and is giving a character name. Then the audience is let into Gary and Brad's hotel room where they become a fly on the wall the play unfolds in the room.

Current Palm Springs Dates include: January 10-11 & February 7-8 & 27-28, 2018.

ELECTRICITY is produced by TMD Productions and MICHAEL DARNER, and is directed by STEVEN ROSENBAUM.

Note: The show contains nudity.

THE LAVENDER EFFECT is a nonprofit dedicated to advancing the Future of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Heritage and Culture. Founded in May of 2012, our programs celebrate diverse culture in Los Angeles community by teaching the contributions of LGBT and allied pioneers. THE LAVENDER EFFECT's LGBT Video History Project captures testimonies from members of the LGBT community, and supportive allies, who were integral participants or witnesses to a historic event or movement. These recordings are being produced at the highest standards possible (i.e. utilizing USC Shoah Foundation's interview guidelines) and have been viewed over 150,000 times worldwide. Other collaborative programs include Out & About LGBT History Tours, Educational Forums and special events.

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