“1309” is a New Music Queer opera written and directed by Mazzy Mann as a millennial coming-of-age “coming out story.” 1309 is a comedy horror with elements of domestic drama in the operatic setting. The production is as dream-like as it is grounded in auto-biographical events. At the turn of the 21st century, a young queer teenager is outed by their family and thus exposes a web of mistrust and lies the family carries. This creates a poltergeist informed by conservative media, misunderstanding, and broken family bonds and customs. While the “1309” house becomes haunted, the protagonist provides a different point-of-view of a family who rejected them and used them as a scapegoat for their own failures and inadequacies. The narrative reclaims Queer horror using the burden young queer people bare coming out to their family unit. “1309” adds a passage of Queer narrative in what “coming out” can feel like: The entrapment, the misunderstanding, a mirror into our own failures of achieving the nuclear family, and the pursuit to “fit in.”
Content warning: This production has moments of implied violence, physical abuse (touching/grabbing), and verbal abuse including gay/ trans slurs in order to reclaim trauma There are strobing effects that may impair those who are light sensitive
VIP access includes: free food catered by Spicy Moon Foods, commemorative photo signed by the cast, and front row seating.
7:30 Doors 8:00 Show
Catering provided by Spicy Moon Foods
Greenwood Social Hall is located on the second floor of an historic building, and does not have an ADA accessible entrance. We apologize for the inconvenience.