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 2018-19 Season Subscription
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UPCOMING SHOWS |
 BLOWN YOUTHby Dipika Guha Feb. 1-14 2019 An aspiring actress and founder of a feminist commune, Celia wants one thing: to play a great role. But despite her sophisticated education and commitment to helping women, Celia, like Hamlet before her, cannot act. Inspired by Shakespeare and set in those hazy post-college years, Blown Youth examines what happens to the universe when a woman is at its center. This play features a cast of 7 women. |
 BOYby Anna Ziegler June 2019 Our trans play, Boy, inspired by a true story, a well-intentioned doctor In the 1960s convinces the parents of a male infant to raise their son as a girl after a botched circumcision. Two decades later, the repercussions of that choice continue to unfold.amongst the tricky terrain of finding love and the confusion of sexual identity. |
 FUN HOME The MusicalAugust 2019 Our first musical and the South Carolina community theatre premiere, Fun Home is based on Allison Bechtel’s graphic novel and set in her family’s FUNeral home. Shifting in time, this heartbreaking and affecting musical depicts her at three different ages as she remembers and confronts her relationship with her gay father and her own coming of age. Directed by Kate Roark, who helmed 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche in February and Spamalot at Spartanburg Little Theatre last year |
PAST SHOWS:
August 3-5 in Spartanburg and Greenville The award-winning Proud Mary Theatre Company, the Upstate’s alternative theatre, concludes its inaugural season with the hit comedy “Southern Baptist Sissies” by Del Shores (“Sordid Lives”) on August 3-5 in Spartanburg and August 10-12 in Greenville at two former Baptist churches. “Southern Baptist Sissies” follows the travails of four young Texan lads as they maneuver between the teachings of the Southern Baptist faith and their budding sexuality. This coming-of-age tale is set in Calvary Baptist Church and a nightclub in Dallas. The play features four Twenty-something Upstate actors as “the Sissies”: Brandon Mimnaugh, Andy Lecture, Damion Deslaurier and Matthew Dylan Hooper. Featured actors include Kate Roark (director of Spartanburg Little Theatre’s “Spamalot”) as the three “Mothers” and Doug Egge (“Spamalot”) as the Calvary Baptist Church Preacher. Comic relief is provided by Sandy Staggs (last seen in Proud Mary’s original performance piece “Movement”) and Brigitte Staggs (USC Upstate graduate) as inebriated barflies Peanut and Odette. “Southern Baptist Sissies” is directed by USC Upstate professor Barry Whitfield (playwright/director of Proud Mary’s world premiere of “The Kiss”). |
THE BOYS IN THE BAND Upstate Pride Benefit Performance
