Vicarious and Ragged Blade Productions Proudly Present:
“GAY CHRISTIAN, GAY MUSLIM, GAY JEW”
Performed by Jade Esteban Estrada
Written by Jerry Rabushka
A solo play
World Premiered on February 16-17, 2007 at
IAO Performance Gallery
811 North Broadway on Historical Automobile Alley
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Photo gallery from world premiere performances!
Thanks to IAO Gallery, Ginger Kunkle, Jeff Stokes, Robert Matson, Lee Burrus & Ingrid's Kitchen, John Schenberg & all who volunteered at the performances.
SYNOPSIS: For people of the Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and even Hindu faith who have questioned their sexuality and relationship to God comes an empowering presentation about the courage to keep their faith and grow closer to God, to separate the religion from the religious and to keep the belief, often among hostile believers.
Meet Jake, run out of his church for confessing his sexuality - what would make him go back? Santosh, a Bollywood fanatic who realizes she loves the women onscreen more than the men, and just like in the movies, tries to get out of an arranged marriage.
Levi, a young gay Jewish man, travels to Israel to live among his own people and free of his family's disapproval. Mahmoud, a gay Palestinian secretly living in Israel, meets Levi. Finally Josefina Maria Garcia, always told to be quiet. By her family, even by her best friend. By people who fear being revealed as gay. What makes her speak out?
ABOUT JADE ESTEBAN ESTRADA: Formally the choreographer to Charo and a scratch vocalist for the Back Street Boys, Jade Esteban Estrada is known as one of the "finest solo theatre artists of the 21st century" (Outlook Weekly). 2006 Entertainer of the Year, 2006 Best Solo Performance Award, Winner, 2005 Performance Artist of the Year, 2004 Audience Favorite Award in Solo Performance. Estrada stars in the upcoming film "The Bad Singer" directed by Calvin Robertson III.
Photo by Carrie Boarman, top photo by Bradley Vinson.
