Six actors play little girls, who become birds, who manifest themselves as Mormon temple workers and pioneer women. This is the allegoric dream-world of The Mormon Bird Play, a darkly-twisted new comedy in which ten year-old Ivona–ugly and mute–comes from Gooding, Idaho to live with her Mormon cousins in Salt Lake City. When she finds an injured bird on the grounds of Temple Square, Ivona immediately becomes an object of suspicion, dangerously reflecting the ills of the culture that surrounds her. Can that society suffer a mirror of its own imperfection, or must the mirror be shattered?

OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 21

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