On a night out after seeing plays in London, a group of Utah theater fans opened up to each other about their families’ experiences with suicide.
When they later took in a production of the play “Facing East” at Draper Historic Theatre, a member who was originally from the Midwest said she finally understood Latter-day Saint viewpoints on homosexuality.
And at a dinner last summer at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, another woman explained what the group had come to mean to her. “I have been in mourning for so long that I forgot what happiness feels like,” she said, “and sitting with you guys here, talking about shows and having a glass of wine, I’m happy.