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New End Theatre, 28 July - 30 August Confessions of a Mormon Boy is Steven Fales’ compelling, humorous and inspiring true story. His provocative tale takes the audience through his excommunication from the Mormon church, marriage, having children, and divorce, as he struggles to reclaim himself, his children and his ‘Donny Osmond smile’. Fales says ‘I wrote the play so that my children would some day be able to understand their gay father” and he adds “I kept thinking that if I were to die, there wasn’t anyone I could fully trust to tell my kids who their ‘wicked’ gay dad really was and how much I loved them.” Confessions of a Mormon Boy received the 2008 Oscar Wilde Award Nomination for Outstanding New Writing in the Theatre at the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival, a New York Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance and an Overall Excellence Award at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. The book of the play, Confessions of a Mormon Boy was a recent finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Fales’ former mother-in-law is celebrated Mormon poet Carol Lynn Pearson whose autobiography Good-bye, I Love You (Random House 1986), poignantly recounts her relationship with her gay ex-husband who died of AIDS in her home. Steven Fales married their oldest daughter, Emily and together they have two children whom they raise in Salt Lake City, Utah. CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY Written and performed by Steven Fales 28 July to 30 August Wednesday to Saturday at 9.30pm Sunday & Monday at 7.30pm (90 minutes) Post-show discussions on Mondays 4, 11, 18 and 25 August. Tickets £15 concessions £12 Ticket Sales 0870 033 2733 New End Theatre, 27 New End, Hampstead London NW3 1JD www.newendtheatre.co.uk 5 minutes from Hampstead tube fully air-conditioned
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