Marriage Equality Play Gets Triangle Readings
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black’s 8, a documentary play about the federal case for marriage equality will get a staged reading at two venues in the Triangle this spring: PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill and Raleigh Ensemble Players.
The title refers to California’s Proposition 8, a successful 2008 ballot initiative which established that only marriage between a man and a woman would be recognized in the state. The proposition was later ruled unconstitutional and is currently under appeal.
More than 40 readings of the play have been scheduled from now until November in more than 17 states. In North Carolina, an amendment that would add an existing ban on same-sex marriage to the state constitution will appear on the May 8 ballot.
PlayMakers will stage the reading of 8 on Monday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Raleigh Ensemble Players will hold the reading at a venue to be determined, Saturday, April 21 at 8 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.playmakersrep.org/ or http://www.realtheatre.org.
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Play reading of “8″ is scheduled for April 10 at Blue Ridge Community College in Hendersonville, NC. A 2nd reading for Asheville NC is being prepared.