Strange Angels Theatre presents the world premiere of "Lay My Burden Down"
Ticket Information: Tickets available at a sliding scale $0-$25
Lay My Burden Down is a serious play with silly puppets about an interracial lesbian couple navigating the burdens of privilege, trauma, and racism—and the transformations that become possible with aging, dying, and loving. Two women meet at a deathbed, decades after the explosive end of their relationship. The dying woman—mother, savior, murderer—is both puppet (literally) and puppet master, having brought her biological and spiritual daughters together again. But as the former lovers fight old battles and relive past passions (with the help of sock puppets), it becomes clear that the reunion won't go as planned.
Strange Angels Theater is a San Francisco-based company that focuses on stories about the complexities of women’s lives—especially women who are historically marginalized. Their practice is to partner with service organizations and other groups to bring plays, storytelling, and art-making directly to people in their communities. Projects have included “Hunter’s Point,” a play about homelessness, home, and frayed family connections, produced in the historic basement theater at St. Boniface Church in the Tenderloin; Home/Cooking, a series of art-making/storytelling salons with current and formerly homeless women; and Everyone Deserves a Home, a roving interview/photography studio designed to elicit stories from supportive housing residents about their lives.
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