Love Western

In the year 2033, theater is mandatory in the USA. At the Ohio Theater in Columbus, the ensemble performs the 4th volume of 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 triggered a national resistance movement and led to a political upheaval. On this historically significant day, Emily, a lesbian cis woman, and Costar, a lesbian trans woman, should have married in the company of their chosen family. But on this very day, the Supreme Court in Ohio decides to declare same-sex marriage illegal. The registrar refuses to marry Emily and Costar. 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.