Love Western

In the year 2033, theater is compulsory in the USA. At the Ohio Theater in Columbus, the ensemble performs Queer from the Encyclopedia of Values Above the Law. The aim of the performance is to commemorate the events in Dayton on May 16, 2028, which sparked a national resistance movement and led to a political upheaval. On this historically significant day, Emily, a cis lesbian woman, and Costar, a trans lesbian woman, should have married in the company of their chosen family. But on that very day, the Supreme Court of Ohio decides to declare same-sex marriage illegal. The registrar refuses to solemnize Emily and Costar's marriage. Through the accounts of the couple and their friends, the ensemble tells the story of queer love, the resistance to this law and the national revolutionary movement that arose from it. But there is disagreement within the ensemble: some feel like executive organs of the state without artistic freedom, while others see the compulsory performance as an opportunity to convey the message to a broad audience. Are they serving the state or freedom? The ensemble begins to rebel against the state-imposed script. With revolver poses, dust and showdowns, they hijack the official narrative - and reinvent America's founding myth: as a queer western.