The award-winning Proud Mary Theatre Company, South Carolina’s only LGBTQ+ theatre company, presents the state community theatre premiere of BOY by Anna Ziegler August 9-18 at three different locations across the Upstate.
BOY, inspired by a true story, is about a well-intentioned doctor in the 1960s who 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. among the tricky terrain of finding love and the confusion of sexual identity.
BOY will premiere August 9-11 in the newly-remodeled Blackbox Theatre at the West Main Artists Co-Operative in Spartanburg. The troupe will present two shows Tuesday and Wednesday, August 13-14 at 8 p.m. in Greenville at Coffee Underground, then make their Anderson debut at The Market Theatre Company Friday through Sunday, August 16-18.
The
titular Boy,
Adam, is played by Greenville transgender actor Noah Fitzer, who
recently starred as Christian Bechdel in Proud Mary’s musical
production of “Fun Home.”
The doctor is played by
Spartanburg’s Ben Dawkins (a regular player at Spartanburg Little
Theatre). Elizabeth Colson and Tyler Smith play parents Trudy and
Doug, and Valerie Saporito is Adam’s girlfriend, Jenny. BOY
is directed by Robert Fuson and stage managed by Cary Doyle.
BOY
in Spartanburg
Friday-Saturday,
August 9-10 @ 8 p.m.
Sunday, August 11 @ 3 p.m.
West Main
Artists Co-Operative, 578 West Main St.
BOY
in Greenville
Tuesday-Wednesday,
August 13-14
@ 8 p.m.
Coffee Underground, 1
E. Coffee St.
BOY in Anderson
Friday-Saturday, August 16-17 @ 8 p.m.
Sunday, August 18 @ 3 p.m.
The Market Theatre Company, 110 Federal St.