Author: Steven Morris

And yet, we’re still here. Our party is a recognition of just that: tenacity and survival. The point is getting to know each other again, to meet and re-meet, and start to reimagine who we are and who we can be as a community.

"A lot of the world theater that came into town, I’d say, now that’s theater, that’s crazy, that’s cool, that’s exciting. I’d never seen work like that before. I don’t think I’d even have known how to approach 'Etta and Ella. . .' had I stayed in Chicago. I would never have figured that out."

It was different century. It was different country. Yes, it was the United States, but it was a different country nonetheless. And it happened in Los Angeles.

It could be argued that this is a play about authoritarianism — i.e. guidance on how to best live life by people who, armed with either a religious or political credo, claim to know better.