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“HOMEFREE” BY Lisa Loomer @ The Road on MAGNOLIA

July 8th, 2015

One of the most unique features of living at NoHo Senior Arts Colony is a having a real theatre and theatre company who put on original productions! Save the date for HOMEFREE. HOMEFREE is a dark urban fairy tale about three cast-out teens and the flip side of the American dream. Franklin, Breezy, JJ.  Kicked out for being gay, for being pretty, for being nuts.  Their journey is crazy, funny and frightening, beginning in a conservative city in Oregon – where grandma’s house is a meth house, where bed’s an underpass, and the safest place you can wander is the mall. When tragedy hits, they travel to another America.  An idyllic liberal town, right smack in the forest.   But is there shelter here?  Or is home each other?   And, when push comes to shove, as it always does … is each other enough?

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Lisa Loomer’s plays, including LIVING OUT, THE WAITING ROOM; DISTRACTED; CAFÉ VIDA; EXPECTING ISABEL; TWO THINGS YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT AT DINNER, BIRDS, BOCÓN!; MARIA! MARIA, MARIA, MARIA; and BROKEN HEARTS have been produced at such theatres as The Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, The Kennedy Center, Seattle Rep, Denver Theater Center, La Jolla Playhouse, OSF, Trinity Repertory, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, Cornerstone, and, in New York, at The Roundabout, The Vineyard, Second Stage, Intar, and The Public Theater. Her work has also been produced in Mexico, Israel, Egypt and Germany. She’s a two-time winner of the American Theatre Critics Award, and has also received awards from the Kennedy Center, the Imagen Foundation, the Jane Chambers Award (twice), and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, among others.   Her newest play, ROE, about Roe v Wade, will premiere at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2016. Currently, she is writing the book for a musical for Broadway.

Previews: Tuesday September 15th  at 8PM, September 16th at 8PM, September 17th at 8PM. Opens September 18, 2015

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