Ronald Reagan Murdered My Mentors

Lost, a 40-something Queer Latine man, struggles to navigate life in America after the AIDS epidemic obliterated an entire generation of Queer male role models. Lost seeks solace in an anonymous voice on the other end of a telephone. As the play bounces between 3 decades, he is tormented by dead Queer icons and their murderer, Ronald Reagan in a seedy gay bar of the afterlife.
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Ronald Reagan Murdered My Mentors

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  • Nick Malakhow:
    25 Feb. 2020
    Fantastic! Christopher crafts a poetic and profane theatrical world full of spectacle and nodding to all kinds of theater and performance forms. All of the characters, but especially Lost, read as both credible and nuanced human beings while also representing large and significant themes and issues in queer male culture. Christopher offers a unique interrogation of desire, mentorship, connection, and a longing for peace and place among queer men. There is some outrageous and bold humor, but the overall feeling I left the play with was an empathy for and a great tenderness towards its complex central characters.
  • Shaun Leisher:
    24 Feb. 2020
    A mind-blowing experimental piece of theatre that looks at a piece of LGBTQ+ history while also showing one man's experience at a time right after the AIDS epidemic killed so many in the 80s. The playwright does a great job weaving factual pieces of history and revisionist history to tell a story about the importance of mentorship and acceptance and how that was robbed from the Queer community by the inaction and hatred of those in power.

Development History

  • Reading
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    The Lark - Roundtable
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    2020
  • Workshop
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    The Rita Goldberg Playwrights Workshop at The Lark
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    2019

Awards

The Rita Goldberg Playwrights Workshop
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The Lark
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2020