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True West by Sam Shepard
June 2024
Perfect Arrangement by Topher Payne
January, 2024
True West
Presented by Rebel Alliance Theatre
Friday and Saturday, June 7th and 8th
Friday and Saturday, June 14th and 15th
Friday and Saturday, June 21st and 22nd
7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30)
First Congregational Church
137 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh 54901
This show contains themes that may not be comfortable for all audiences – parental guidance is encouraged.
Tickets start at $18
Purchase tickets at the door or at www.ko-fi.com/rebelalliancetheatre
True West is a play by celebrated American dramatist Sam Shepard, who played a pivotal role in off-Broadway theatre development.
“You sound just like the old man, now.”
“Yeah, well we all sound alike when sloshed. We all just sort of echo each other.”
An estranged brother rolls into town, and with him the echoes of a time long past. But who’s the real stranger in this family? Austin, the Ivy league screenwriter, ten years junior to Lee—a housebreaking vagabond just back from the Californian desert. In this play uncomfortable dualities abound between and within each character: nature and nurture, art and business, fiction and reality, civilization and the frontier, beginnings and endings, brother and brother.
Rebel Alliance Theatre’s first performance following their rousing LGTBQ program aims to continue developing our staff and craft to continue bringing genuine theatre at an affordable price.
True West will be presented on Fridays (June 7th, 14th, and 21st) and Saturdays (June, 8th, 15th, 22nd). All shows start at 7PM (doors open at 6:30PM), and will be presented at First Congregational Church in Oshkosh!
Perfect Arrangement
Presented by Rebel Alliance Theatre
Friday and Saturday, January 5th and 6th
Friday and Saturday, January 12th and 13th
7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30)
First Congregational Church
137 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh 54901
This show contains themes that may not be comfortable for all audiences – parental guidance is encouraged.
Tickets are $18 to $25
Purchase tickets at the door or at ko-fi.com/rebelalliancetheatre
The Rebel Alliance Theater 2023 season was underwritten by a generous grant from the First Congregational Church in Oshkosh.
“If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.”
(Norma – Perfect Arrangement)
We would all like to believe this statement to be true. But, for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, it often is not. The artists of Rebel Alliance Theatre, aided by a generous grant from the First Congregational Church in Oshkosh, have devoted their 2023/2024 Season to amplifying LGBTQA+ voices and issues, shining a light on the ways in which queer people are affected by the fear and prejudice of those around them.
The third show of the Rebel Season, Perfect Arrangement by Topher Payne, is set during the infamous “Lavender Scare”. The story takes place in 1950, in an increasingly polarized United States at the outset of McCarthyism. With homosexuality considered a mental illness, gay men and lesbians were barred or removed from government employment over concerns of “deviance” and “general moral turpitude” . At the center of this upheaval, two gay men and two lesbians have found a way to avoid discovery by presenting themselves as heterosexual couples, living next door to each other. But when their employer, The U.S. State Department, asks them to target men and women just like themselves, they are forced to choose between the increasingly tenuous living arrangement required by their government and the right to live in dignity without shame or fear.
Perfect Arrangement will be presented on Friday and Saturday, January 5 and 6 and 12 and 13. All shows start at 7 pm (doors open at 6:30). Tickets for Perfect Arrangement may be purchased at the door on show nights, or online: ko-fi.com/rebelalliancetheatre. Ticket prices are on a sliding scale: $18 – $25. This show contains mature themes and parental guidance is recommended. All shows will be performed at the First Congregational Church, 137 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh. The Rebel Alliance Theatre 2023/2024 Season has been underwritten by a generous grant from the First Congregational Church.