Check out some footage of the play, as well as performer interviews, below:
Starting tonight, the Break Through: Bringing Down the Barriers, will be playing at the UCF Conservatory Theater.
Break Through is a play about living in the LGBTQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Intersex) community, and the indignations, civil rights violations, and the hate-motivated stigmas that plague the community. According to the play’s website, the team that put it together “collected stories, research, and interviews from one of the most culturally diverse cities in the country, and transformed the raw material into heart-rending, eye-opening performance pieces that expose the everyday secrets of what it’s like to be queer in America in the 21st century.”
Eden Wetherell, the marketing director for the play, encouraged UCF students to come out and watch. “This show is an eye-opening production about society’s barriers and the amazing true stories of bringing them down, and is exactly what this world needs to see.”
The play, hosted by Knight Allies at UCF and sponsored by the UCF Office of Diversity Initiatives, Campus Activities Board, UCF Victim Services, Princeton Review, and the Office of Instructional Resources, will be free to UCF students with a UCF student ID.
Below is a video preview of the play:
However, there is reserved seating and a VIP reception for those interested in paying $15 or $30, respectively. And for those who aren’t students, the price is $5 for general admission. All of the proceeds from Break Through will benefit The Zebra Coalition, a non-profit organization that provides services and safe spaces to troubled LGBTQI youth.
Show times for the play are 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. There will be a special 2 p.m. showing on Sunday as well.
For those interested in helping, there will be tables set-up at the show containing information from a few of the plays UCF sponsors (The UCF Office of Diversity Initiatives, UCF Victim Services, UCF Counseling Center), Registered Student Organization hosting Break Through (Knight Allies at UCF), Equal at UCF, and and the Zebra Coalition, who will be handing out information on how to help those in the LGBTQI community.
