In a landscape of mass brutality, what is an act of kindness? An act of dissent to be extinguished, or our only hope for redemption?
On the eve of their wedding, fifty brides flee their country to avoid marrying their fifty cousins. While seeking asylum, the brides raise questions about refugees, gender politics, and men and women trying to find what will carry them through the wreckage of dysfunctional relationships, anger, rage, and heartbreak, crafting well-defined storylines, with both sexes adequately represented on stage. As in life, there are no easy answers to these big issues, but sometimes you just have to believe that love will get you through.

Gran Amor by Charles L. Mee was the UDLAP Theater Company's Spring 2020 production, presented at the UDLAP Performing Arts Hall.

Classical drama collides with 21st-century excess in "Great Love," a fierce and extravagant retelling of Aeschylus's "The Suppliants," one of the earliest plays in the Western world, using American playwright Charles Mee's work as a model to interrogate independence versus expectation in the seemingly endless battle of the sexes.