O, Earth

by Casey Llewellyn

Commissioned and Produced by The Foundry Theatre

O, Earth at HERE, directed by Dustin Wills, January 2016.

O, Earth is a reckoning with the cultural and theatrical inheritance of Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town from the perspective of expanding our our. Everyone in a motley crew of characters drawn from Wilder’s play, gay pop culture, and trans and queer artistic and political lineage goes on their own strange journey to understand something about our connection to each other and this world. O, Earth is an interrogation of the “universal” and an investigation of the promise of gay liberation, the politics of marriage, and the radical possibilities of every day.

You can watch video clips at The Foundry’s website.

Left to right: Tommy Heleringer, Julienne "Mizz June" Brown, Jess Barbagallo, Kristen Sieh, Cecilia Gentili. Kristen as Emily in a white dress stands facing the audience in the foreground. Everyone else is one stools looking over their shoulders at her.

Julienne "Mizz June" Brown as Marsha P. Johnson in the foreground looking down wearing flowers and feathers on her head and a faux-fur leopard-print coat and red leather gloves. She holds a fan in her right hand. Dirt covers the floor the red chairs of Ellen’s talkshow are in the background.

Martin Moran as Thornton Wilder.

Left to right: Cecilia Gentili as Sylvia Rivera, Moe Angelos as Ellen DeGeneres, and Julienne "Mizz June" Brown as Marsha P. Johnson, and Kristen Sieh as Emily.

Moe Angelos and Emily Davis (onscreen) as Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi.

Left to right: Kristen Sieh as Emily and Emily Davis as Portia DeRossi.

Photos by Julieta Cervantes.

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