Plan-B Theatre Presents BORDERLANDS 3/31-4/10

Plan-B Theatre continues its 2010/11 20th anniversary season with the world premiere of Eric Samuelsen's BORDERLANDS

BORDERLANDS is about coming out-stepping forward, admitting who you are, telling the uncomfortable.

From the playwright: I wrote a play about coming out. Not just coming out in the usual sense-in fact, in BORDERLANDS, the one gay character is already out. It's a play about all the other ways we come out as Mormons, about admitting that we don't necessarily believe what we're supposed to believe, or that we don't always find it possible to live the way we're expected to live. It's a play about moments of unanticipated honesty, and the revelations that result. And it's a play about the hard work of carving out a social space for those for whom none exists in our culture. So the characters in this play sit in an honesty car, and tell the truth about what liars they are. Because they're Mormons, they're much harsher in their self-judgments than they really need to be. And that pressure to conform blinds them to people who really are genuinely suffering. Finally, one young man finds a way to actually be what the other characters profess to be.
Plan-B has previously premiered Eric Samuelsen's plays MIASMA and AMERIGO.

Featuring Kirt Bateman, Teri Cowan, Stephanie Howell and Topher Rasmussen.

Directed by Jerry Rapier. Funded in part by an Access to Artistic Excellence grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The March issue of Sunstone Magazine features the published script.

DATES, VENUE AND TICKETS

March 31-April 10, 2011 | Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner | 138 W 300 S, SLC

Running time 70 minutes | No late seating

Thursday-Friday at 8pm | Saturday at 4pm and 8pm | Sunday at 2pm

Tickets $20 ($10 students) | 801.355.ARTS or http://planbtheatre.org
RELATED EVENT: BENEFIT PERFORMANCE

35 local non-profits have been the beneficiary of our Benefit Performances Program since its inception in 2001 - the BORDERLANDS beneficiary is Wasatch Affirmation.

Preview on Wednesday, March 30 at 7:00pm

Tickets for the benefit performance are $25 and are only available at wasatchaff@aol.com or 801.486.6977 - all proceeds benefit Wasatch Affirmation

RELATED FREE EVENT: SCRIPT-IN-HAND SERIES

Readings of four short plays by Daniel Beecher, Carleton Bluford, Isabella Iasella and Jim Martin - commissioned by Plan-B and the Utah AIDS Foundation - about HIV/AIDS here and now.

Wednesday, April 6 at 6pm and 7:30pm