Confessions of a Mormon Boy

Synopsis

Steven Fales' critically acclaimed award-winning 90 minute solo play; Confessions of a Mormon Boy, has its London premiere for three weeks only at the Charing Cross Theatre.

Recounting how Steven went from being the perfect Mormon boy in Utah to a high-priced call boy in New York City, this provocative true story takes the audience from his Mormon mission to Portugal, through excommunication, divorce, prostitution and crystal meth addiction as he struggles to reclaim himself, his two children and his 'Donny Osmond smile'.

Directed by Tony Award Winner Jack Hofsiss (the original Broadway production of The Elephant Man), Confessions of a Mormon Boy has played across the US including an extended off Broadway run, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago and a sell out run in Salt Lake City! Internationally the show has played the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe.

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Our Review:

8 September 2011

Confessions of a Mormon Boy is an odyssey, a tormented soul in search of the meaning of life, love and his true self.

Ostensibly this one man show is the story of a gay man born into a devout Mormon family who struggles with the doctrinal prejudices of his church and community, flees the oppressive disapproval of Salt Lake City (getting himself excommunicated on the way), and ends up as a high end escort in the Sodam and Gamorrah that is New York City.

However the real fascination for the observer is the emotional and spiritual journey that Steven Fales describes; his initial attempts to convert and conform, going as far as therapy sessions to rid him of his SSA (same sex attraction), a two year missionary period in Portugal and even marrying a good Mormon girl and fathering two children.

It’s a difficult task to tell your own story in such a public manner and not seem to be self indulgent or to be using the audience as a confessional or extended therapy, ...

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Latest User Review

Villa Sanuk - 14 September 2011:

OK is just about it. It all feels like the writer and performer are trying really hard to get us to like him and his story rather than telling the story and letting the audience decide! Writer and performer commentary (in a long piece which desperately needs editing) ends up being annoying. The "reveal" ends up being ruined when you encounter the actor in the bar after! This is not meant to be harsh but constructive. Less is more!...

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