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Join SafeGuards at the Play “Hugging the Shoulder.” on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, at 2pm. The play will end with a speak-out by SafeGuards about substance abuse in the LGBT community and information about our new program collaboration REACH. Walnut Street Theatre, Studio 5.
“Hugging the Shoulder” by Jerrod Bogard and produced by Represented Theatre Company is an intense, 90-minute play centering on a young man who kidnaps his older brother and takes him on a grueling road trip to conquer his heroin addiction. Mile after mile their relationship is stretched to the limit as the two brothers’ repressed memories and hidden motivations are mercilessly exposed. Hugging the Shoulder is a play about the tragedy of missed opportunities. It explores the relationship between addiction and love, and is a plea for us to do what sometimes is the hardest thing of all: to forgive ourselves.
Read this review from City Paper - February 12, 2009:
Hugging the Shoulder
Represented Theatre is one of those little by-their-bootstraps companies too often overlooked in their formative years. Founder and artistic director Darnelle Radford graduates from producing his own Sidewalk Cafe plays to the Philadelphia debut of Jerrod Bogard’s Hugging the Shoulder, a drama compared to Sam Shepard’s (Buried Child, True West) works for its intensity. Director Bill Egan brings us Derrick (Nicholas Troy), who kidnaps older brother Jeremy (Ted Powell), trying to break his heroin addiction through a grueling road trip. SoCal magazine called the characters “honest, unrelenting and uncompromising.” Sounds intense to us.
—Mark Cofta
Feb. 18-March 8, $12-$15, Represented Theatre Co. at Walnut Street Theatre’s Studio 5, 825 Walnut St., 215-964-9245, http://www.represented.org/.
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