In the Valley of the Shadow

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ROGUE MACHINE THEATRE PRODUCES
IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
By Katherine Cortez
Directed by Elina de Santos
At the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival

Los Angeles, CA – An apocalyptic event in an LGBT Nightclub changes everything; love becomes hate, hate becomes love.

World premiere. Playwright Katherine Cortez grew up in Orlando with no openly gay nightclubs, witnessing family and friends hiding in shadows and losing lives to AIDS before it had a name. She completed the AIDS LifeCycle ride, and then…The Pulse nightclub shooting on the eve of LA PRIDE.

The play reflects on how fundamentalist belief systems can give a perverse inspiration to the execution of hate in the name of ‘love.’ Exploring our duality as human beings – a paradoxical species capable of both violence and its opposite – the play challenges audiences to examine our darker parts in order to integrate the shad