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Izad Etemadi: Let Me Explain (2023)

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Izad Etemadi has spent most of his life explaining himself to others. His ethnicity, his sexuality, the pronunciation of his name. But as an elder millennial dealing with back pain and digestive issues, he doesn’t have the time or energy to keep explaining things.

Through jokes, songs, and deeply personal stories, this queer Iranian-Canadian immigrant born in Germany is going to attempt to explain his entire existence in sixty-ish minutes, so he never has to do it again.

our fathers, sons, lovers and little brothers (2023)

by makambe k simamba

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through the unknown, as Slimm grapples with the truth of the life he lived and the death he didn’t choose.

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers is a protest for all Black life beyond headlines and hashtags, a prayer for all families left behind, and a promise to the community that all Black lives matter.

This Is How We Got Here (2022)

by Keith barker

It’s the anniversary of Craig’s death and everyone is wrestling with it in different ways. Paul buries his pain through drinking and suppresses his feelings. Lucille breaks plates, sits in the dark, and is convinced the fox visiting her sister’s garden is a sign. Jim refuses to talk about him or the guilt he carries as the last person Craig talked to before he took his own life. Liset tries holding everything together for everyone.

Keith Barker’s This Is How We Got Here shows a close-knit family working through the process of loss and grief. Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, the play moves back and forth in time, allowing audiences to piece together the fragments of these characters’ lives as they reconnect with one another through forgiveness, love, and hope.