Join us for the second show of Stay True Theatre Company's 2021/22 Season, Cupid and Psyche: An Audioplay. This piece is a co-production between Stay True and the Cupid and Psyche team.
A portion of proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Marsha P. Johnson Institute.
When the goddess Venus becomes jealous of the young, mortal Psyche’s beauty, she unwittingly sets in motion a love story of mythic proportions. A dramatic reinterpretation of the classical myth Cupid and Psyche, this audio play was created by a team of exclusively queer women artists and nonbinary artists. As an experimentation in form and structure, it strives to grapple with the modern queer themes of an ancient story.
Run Time: 50 minutes
CUPID AND PSYCHE
Written and composed by Madeleine Waters
Directed and produced by Kelleen Moriarty
Stage managed and creatively produced by Aoife Hough
WITH
Stephanie Everett as Psyche
Alisya Reza as King
Naomi Agnew as Eldest
Sophia Therese Kinne as Elder
Saga Darnell as Venus
Kate Budney as Cupid
Narrated by Gustavo Mercado Muñiz
Graphic Design by Giovi Moriarty and Hsi An Chen
ABOUT THE MARSHA P. JOHNSON INSTITUTE
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute (MPJI) protects and defends the human rights of BLACK transgender people. We do this by organizing, advocating, creating an intentional community to heal, developing transformative leadership, and promoting our collective power.
We intend to reclaim Marsha P. Johnson and our relationship as BLACK trans people to her life and legacy. It is in our reclaiming of Marsha that we give ourselves permission to reclaim autonomy to our minds, to our bodies, and to our futures. We were founded both as a response to the murders of BLACK trans women and women of color and how that is connected to our exclusion from social justice issues, namely racial, gender, and reproductive justice, as well as gun violence.