Q-MoB Special Performance "Fragments" @ Great Barrington Public Theater

7/2 Q-MoB Special Performance "Fragments" @ Great Barrington Public Theater

Thursday, 7:00-9:30pm (includes special post-performance panel by Playwright & Q-MoB leaders from the AIDS era reflecting on how the lessons from that era can inform current healthcare & queer rights struggles)
St. James Place
352 Main Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230

YOU MUST PURCHASE TICKETS FROM THIS GREAT BARRINGTON PUBLIC THEATER TICKETING LINK:

https://www.greatbarringtonpublictheater.org/fragments

And we encourage you to also register here on Eventbrite so you can sit with the Q-MoB group.

This powerful & prescient new play catalogs the moments of life for one couple navigating their mystical, transformative, and harrowing journey through the AIDS pandemic. In a world where it has become more and more common for history to be eroded, rewritten or erased entirely, Jim Petosa’s new play, Fragments, is a stunning gift. Doing what the theater does best, this piece is a memoir of a very specific time and place that shines a light on the turbulent years from 1985-90 when the world was overtaken by the AIDS crisis that decimated a generation at the same time it galvanized massive positive changes in health reseach and care. In the panel after the performance we will recall how the lessons of ACT UP's rage, story-telliing, and constant non-violent pressure created lasting healthcare justice for everyone.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT/PERFORMER: Jim Petosa is Professor Emeritus with Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. He served as a professor and as director of the BU School of Theatre from 2002 – 2018. He also served as artistic director of the Boston region’s New Repertory Theatre from 2012 – 2018. Petosa has directed Tom Stoppard and André Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at NYC’s Town Hall and the operas Carmen (Peter Brook adaptation) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat among others. PTP/NYC credits include Monster, Spatter Pattern, A Question of Mercy, Therese Raquin, Somewhere in the Pacific, Marisol, Dog Plays, Statements After an Arrest, Good, Brecht on Brecht, among others. He also served as Artistic Director for the Olney Theatre Center, where directing credits include Democracy, Racing Demon, Brooklyn Boy, Copenhagen, The Laramie Project, Art, The Miracle Worker, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (won a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Musical Production), Theatre J’s Collected Stories (received a Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Direction), and Look! We Have Come Through! (Charles MacArthur New Play nomination, Co-created with Carole Graham Lehan). A member of the Actor’s Equity Association and the Society of Directors and Choreographers, and the Becket Arts Center Board, he teaches acting and directs for the Boston University Opera Institute.

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BESIDES BUYING YOUR TICKET FROM GREAT BARRINGTON PUBLIC THEATER, PLEASE REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE SO YOU CAN SIT WITH THE Q-MOB GROUP