Fri 3/29-Sat 4/20 @ 8PM
The next offering from Tremont-based theater Convergence-Continuum is described as a “dark comedy,” but then that’s how you’d describe a vast majority of the tiny, adventurous company’s productions: skewed satire is their specialty.
The 2020 play Stonewallin’, written by Oberlin College Assistant Professor of Theater Kari Barlcay and produced there last year, is also described as a “queer coming-of-age story in the American South full of witchcraft, war re-enactors and ghosts.” Its cast includes a witch, an elder, a “bisexual, homoromantic wanderer,” a cautious city councilor … and Confederate general Stonewall Jackson.
“The witches are up to something in the small-town South,” we’re told. “When Marsha [the bisexual moves from Berkeley to Virginia to reconnect with her family’s roots, she finds a barista with an astrology obsession, a Confederate monument gone missing, and the makings of a bisexual love story — if she wants it.
The show opens this Friday March 29 and runs Thursday-Saturday through April 20. Get tickets here.