A Free Theatre Event
Come see Frank J. Avella's Consent
Stay for a complimentary wine & cheese reception
Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 6:30PM
CONSENT, a play written by Frank J. Avella, examines the types of bulling many gay teens face, both obvious and subtle. The cast features: Ian Whitt, Mackian Bauman, Ian Campbell Dunn, Alice Barrett Mitchell, & Remington E. Moses. Stage directions read by Brian Patterson.
Seth is a 16-year-old boy coming to terms with his sexuality who is bullied a...
A Free Theatre Event
Come see Frank J. Avella's Consent
Stay for a complimentary wine & cheese reception
Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 6:30PM
CONSENT, a play written by Frank J. Avella, examines the types of bulling many gay teens face, both obvious and subtle. The cast features: Ian Whitt, Mackian Bauman, Ian Campbell Dunn, Alice Barrett Mitchell, & Remington E. Moses. Stage directions read by Brian Patterson.
Seth is a 16-year-old boy coming to terms with his sexuality who is bullied at school and taken advantage of by those around him. He crushes on the main bully's brother, who, much to Seth’s delight, returns his feelings. Meanwhile, Seth's absent mom has returned and must battle Seth's current guardian, his high school baseball coach who seems a bit too attached to the boy. As the sequence of events unfolds, Seth becomes more and more alienated and dejected. At the heart of this work is an unapologetic teen love story between two boys.
The author began researching and writing CONSENT one week after Tyler Clementi’s suicide, driven by a deep pain and anger but also a hope that other bullied teens (LGBTQ teens, in particular) would realize that they’re not alone and that being different and unique is a thing to be celebrated, not denigrated.
The performance takes place on Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 6:30PM at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in SoHo (26 Wooster Street, NYC). Admission is free and there will be a wine and cheese reception following the play.
Please RSVP to consenttheplay2016@gmail.com. For more information call: 973-715-2356.