Except that the Supreme Court is poised to strike down reproductive freedom nationwide and more assaults are on the way against the recently won freedom to marry. Except that, in Texas, vigilante bounties are placed on the heads of women who choose to end their pregnancies. Just how many angsty songs can you sing about frustrated yearnings and forbidden desires?Įxcept that it’s now 2022, not 1891, and it is illegal for a gay teacher in Florida to talk about his husband. True to its source material, Porchlight’s show depicts students struggling against a culture so sexually repressed and so terrified of adolescent emotion and curiosity that it is almost comical. Now Porchlight Theatre’s dynamic production of the musical is playing, after a pandemic delay, at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts.
