Broken Nose Theatre is launching its tenth season with an audio adaptation of its hit 2018 play Kingdom, written by resident playwright Michael Allen Harris and directed by Manny Buckley.
Kingdom features ensemble members RjW Mays (Phaedra) and Watson Swift (Henry) reprising the roles they performed in 2018. They are joined by ensemble members Ben F. Locke (Alexander) and William Anthony Sebastian Rose II (Malik), as well as guest artist Darren Jones (Arthur).
After the state of Florida legalizes same-sex marriage, Arthur and Henry, partners of fifty years, come to terms with their differing opinions on the necessity of becoming husbands, even as their son Alexander finds himself wading through some rough new waters of his own. Kingdom is the story of an entirely-LGBTQ African American family that lives in the near-literal shadow of Orlando's magical kingdom, as they struggle to create a life together that captures a little bit of that same magic. Critically acclaimed when originally staged by Broken Nose in 2018, Kingdom received the 2018 BTAA Lorraine Hansberry Award.
This family drama will stream on-demand Oct. 4-24 at BrokenNoseTheatre.com. Tickets for all Broken Nose Theatre performances are "pay-what-you-can," allowing patrons to set their own price.