LOVE STORY
April 23rd - May 17th
Aurora Stewart de Peña - Playwright
Rose Burnett Bonczek - Director
Charles Bales - Producer
Ally Callaghan - Actor
Ramona Floyd - Actor
Mickey Ryan - Actor
Micaela Bottari - Scenic designer
Sarai Frazier - Lighting designer
Patricia Marjorie - Costume designer
Keri Landeiro - Production Stage Manager
Stephanie Klapper - Casting director
Maria is dead, but she's still on the call sheet. She's trapped inside a play that keeps restarting itself, where scenes from her life are rehearsed and revised by the people who loved her. Conversations loop. Arguments reset. Stage directions are sentient. Maria watches as their memories turn her into a character, a plot device in the stories of the people she loved.
As the play slips between rehearsal, recollection, and imagined afterlives, Maria tries to wrest back authorship of her own story. She argues with monologues, questions the rules of the world she’s trapped in, and refuses to become a symbol of loss. LOVE STORY navigates what comes after death, when love refuses to let you step into your light.