Theaters Unite for I Wanna F@#king Tear You Apart Island City Stage is proud to present I Wanna F@#king Tear You Apart, a play about the nature of friendships in all its messed-up forms, with a special shout out to the kind of love that sometimes looks like rage. Playing March 2-April 2, 2023, this production will be co-produced by Atlanta, Georgia’s Out Front Theatre Company. “The Dramatists Guild, the national organization that works with theaters, playwrights, etc., put together a roundtable discussion in June 2020 of artistic directors of queer theaters from across the country,” Out Front Theatre Company’s Founder and Producing Artistic Director Paul Conroy says. “The artistic director of National Queer Theater, which is in New York, and I met from that roundtable, and we stayed in touch. We thought this kind of connection should happen all the time.”
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In January 2021, the pair founded the Queer Theater Alliance. “That’s how we connected with Island City Stage,” Conroy explains. “My husband and I, along with some friends, would visit Wilton Manors once or twice a year, and we’ve been doing that since 2019. I connected with Andy Rogow, and we both really love this show. I said, you know, we’re close enough in proximity that it is feasible for us to do a co-production.” I Wanna F@#king Tear You Apart will first be performed at Out Front Theatre Company, February 2-18, 2023. Written by Morgan Gould, the production follows best friends and roommates Samantha and Leo whose relationship comes into question after a new friend enters and upends their co-dependent world of mutual self-loathing and Grey’s Anatomy marathons.
