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RAINBOW FESTIVAL 2017: PROGRAM GREEN (THE OATH)

La Strada Ensemble Theater presents Rainbow Festival 2017: A Celebration of LGBT Theater. The event features, three programs of varied, cutting edge one-act plays created by playwrights from across the United States. The shows begin June 1st at Jersey Shore Art Center, 66 South Main Street, 3rd Floor Theater, Ocean Grove, New Jersey.

Artistic Director A.J. Ciccotelli answers the question why LGBT theater and why now: As a community, we have stories to tell, great stories. But we have much more work left to do to maintain our newly (brand spanking new) rights that we must never take for granted. Expression goes back to the cave people who wrote their stories on walls and gathered by the camp fire and told them -- it's what kept them informed, connected and kept them going. We are a little festival now but it's my goal to get bigger, open our hearts more and let many different voices be heard. It's important to have the younger voice be heard but equally as well the older voice. Our need to be heard later in life is as critical. We experience what everyone else goes through but because of what we survived our voices must be heard.

The Oath by artistic director and local NJ Toms River resident A.J. Ciccotelli: A staged reading about two sisters. one a lesbian and one not, in this memory play about camaraderie, loyalty and loss. Staged reading stars founding member Donna Knowlton and Janet Rothstein.

This program plays Sun. June 11 @2pm.

Tickets are $8 and can be purchased here.