'Copters & Casseroles
Sister Dottie S. Dixon provides more real emotional heft than Miss Saigon.
The Passion of Sister Dottie S. Dixon
Sister Dottie S. Dixon (Charles Lynn Frost) originated in three-minute segments on local radio, so I was fearing that The Passion of Sister Dottie S. Dixon would be the theatrical equivalent of those ghastly Saturday Night Live sketches padded out to feature-length movies. I never expected Sister Dottie to become so … real.
The
character as conceived is already intriguing and complicated: a
faithful Mormon wife and mother from Spanish Fork who is also an
activist on behalf of her openly gay son Donnie. The play—by Sister
Dottie’s co-creators Frost and Troy Williams—serves as kind of an
“origin” story, flashing back to pivotal events including Donnie’s
coming-out, a consciousness-expanding trip to the Burning Man festival
and confrontations with church authorities over her civil disobedience.
0 Responses to “The City Weekly LOVES The Passion!”