Curtain up, lights out.​

The stage is revealed. Dimly lit, demanding the audience focus to find the ephemeral point where the eyes can adjust to the limeless light entering the black pools, almost perfectly round and for now as large as saucers, at their center, enabling them to see. What is in front of them. What beckons them.

There is no music, there is no sound. Just an empty stage. Noiselessly begging to be brought to life.

The vision of the founding board of Theatre Noir Blanc is to fill this chasm, this void space with works that are being written and ignored in this era which should surely be enlightened, more enlightened than ever before because: that’s progress isn’t it? A forward motion fueled by the knowledge gathered as humankind moves through its own history. But it isn’t. This moment is a stasis at best and a sickening regression at worst. And theatre is actively overlooking minority writers. It makes more sense to producers, who so recently sought work by women, by people of color, by elders, by queer people, to revert to courting established straight white men to tempt audiences into theatre spaces. It is evidenced and, in a future episode of this blog, this writer will bring you the scandalous attestations that are the: proof.

The founding board have a different vision. A rebellious vision. A vision that screams ‘you can if you will’. So. Theatre Noir Blanc is birthed, and it will grow in the pursuit and presentation of plays written by LGBTQ+ writers. By elder writers. By women. By writers of color. Plays which refuse to be seduced by the notion that a play must be niched to a particular race. Or gender. Or: age-group. Plays that explore the liminal land of lovers of different race, of different color, of different culture coming together and proving that, in the end, it turns out that all we really do need is love. In all its messy splendor.

Hold! Here they come: the players, I hear them … let the show commence, the many shows all splendored and provocative and teasing and tantalizing and all that is delicious and divine.