NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A play penned by an area director is taking the stage Thursday and Friday at the Flag Theater.
"I landed on this idea about a few years ago, and finally it's come to fruition," said Nicholas Amezola, the director of Concrete Garden. "I always call it semi-autobiographical, because I've dramatized a lot of it, but a lot of the experiences of it, I've actually experienced myself."
The story is going to be dramatically read.
"There's not a full choreography or set and costumes. It'll just be 13 people, just having music stands in front of them, with the script in front of them, and we're just acting and singing at each other," It'll still be an acted-out experience, rather than just monotone reading, but there won't be a whole song and dance, literally."
The story is about the main character's spiritual journey.
"He starts off as just not believing in anything because of an experience he had with his father, who passed away," Amezola said. "As he progresses through the story, he learns to grow more in his faith. He loses it when COVID comes around, and at the end of the story, it's kind of ambiguous whether he's going to go back to it or not. Yeah, it's just kind of outlining what a religious journey can look like."
Concrete Garden is this Thursday and Friday, June 27 and 28 at the Flag Theater. It will start at 7 p.m. Tickets will be sold at the door. They're just $5.
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