Digital Program
Playwright's Note
What’s the right way to respond to one’s world’s suddenly turning monstrous and cruel? It’s a question we’re likely all asking with each successive horror these days. For trans people it can feel like the 21 st century was a brief, unprecedented moment of welcome that’s shut almost as quickly as it opened. Celebrities were spawned, laws passed, and opportunities extended, only for hatred to roar back louder and more directly than ever. This play was written in 2023 and it now feels like a premonition. Archer’s arrival and the havoc it engenders on Celine’s community could be seen as a microcosm for what anyone not aligned with fascism currently experiences. How do we make art, teach science, serve in local government or pursue any of the activities depicted here while being threatened so directly? . . . Like our humanity depends on it, perhaps, and as though morality, compassion and love still matter, despite what our foes might suggest.
Mikki Gillette, October, 2025
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