"THE SPONSORS BACKED OUT." THE MARCH PRODUCTION OF ANY1MAN HAS BEEN SUSPENDED.

in the meanwhile, allow us to share with you a review from our most recent performance.

"An Encounter with Any 1 Man" by Monique Brantly

The lights when dim and suddenly he appeared on in the stands wearing what can be described as nothing more than a conservative sort of loin cloth. A vulnerable svelte brown body making his way to the stage floor below and speaking from the perspective of the biblical Adam on the loss of innocence and the weight of life’s trials.

The space went dark. And before he could reappear I jotted down only one thing: “excellence is a selfish, lonely pursuit, but someone has to do it.”

It.

He.

Was amazing.

He was excellent to me in that moment and throughout the performance. The fruits of sacrifice and commitment were so apparent and I respected him for it. Peters transformed himself four more times. Willie, the antagonized son of a distressed mother who verbally abuses him for the mistakes his father made is presented with a morbid sort of honesty. Wesley (my personal favorite) is a dazzling beacon of creative beauty and spunk who’s light is threatened by the desperate measures his parents feel they must take to try to extinguish his “deviant” sexuality. Man-Tan masquerades about in a seemingly dream-like existence challenging his onlookers to expand themselves beyond the everyday in pursuit of the dreams that will otherwise be left behind. Lastly, there is Bishop, educated, witty and homeless; a representation of the potential within each of us to go “missing” in this world. Peters portrayed each of these characters, peas of the same societal pod, with careful complexity and warm clarity.

Any 1 Man was, in a word, transforming and I hope that as his success spreads, others will be touched and changed as I was.

Monique Brantley