Leslie Jordan
5) Mangus!
Language
English
Description
A super fun, dark trailer-trash comedy, Mangus! revolves around high school senior Mangus Spedgewick (who lost his legs in a drunk driving accident the night of his high school prom) who hopes to fulfill his family's tradition of playing Jesus in the local annual production of 'Jesus Christ Spectacular'. However, the town leaders don't want a crippled Jesus. Mangus takes on their discriminatory casting and fights their decision.
Language
English
Description
Writer/director Del Shores' Glaad Award-winning play, about four gay boys growing up in the Southern Baptist Church. It explores the conflict between the caustic rhetoric of dogmatic religion and the fragile development of adolescent homosexuality while challenging hypocrisy, exposing damage and offering hope. The intimate experience of theatre on the film screen reveals the complicated emotions from all sides, the confused child, the struggling adolescent...
8) Sordid lives
Language
English
Description
"The hilariously sordid details about a southern family surface with a vengeance when relatives converge for the funeral of 'Grandma Peggy' who died after tripping over her lover's wooden legs. Toss in a couple of feuding, big-haired daughters, a jumpy aunt who just quit smoking, the scorned neighbor from hell, and crazy, cross-dressing 'Brother Boy' and you've got an outrageous train wreck you can't help but watch"--Container.