There came a close call when a fellow cast member almost quit an hour before the first rehearsal. I have felt God both opening and shutting doors and inviting the right people along for this journey.вЂќДЄnd when Kari said that there where times the show might not happen, it literally almost did not happen. Throughout this whole process I have felt like I am just the facilitator. The show was so powerful and beautiful to me but what if our audience didnвЂ™t feel the same way? I prayed for guidance and that God would take control.

I felt a call to do this show, but I was afraid of what the reaction would be. ItвЂ™s a truly beautiful show and it deserves to be seen.вЂќДЄnd even when we begun rehearsal, Kari faced fears of what the show will bring, she said, вЂњThere were many times that I thought the show might not happen, and a few times where I secretly hoped it wouldnвЂ™t. ItвЂ™s about finding yourself and falling in love and losing the people closest to you. ItвЂ™s about life, women of the world really, with real struggles, joys, and passions. When talking about the show, Jada mentioned that, вЂњThe thing about this play is it is so easily written off as a lesbian play and nothing more. As a cast, we wanted the campus to not only experience the show, but to talk about it as well. It was the issues that ChamberвЂ™s brought forth in her play and the relation to the characters that sparked interest in bringing this show to USF. Jada and Kari went through multipleВ meetings, stating their reasons for wanting to bring the play to campus. Bringing the play to campus did take a years worth of work. When Kari and Jada first mentioned the play to me, my first thoughts were, 'Psh, yeah.that's not going to happen.' But luckily, it did. Now hold up, you probably have questions of, 'How is this taking place on a Christian campus?' and 'Who would even allow USF to do a show like this?' My thoughts exactly. They began to realize that the there was something more behind the story than the two lesbian lovers who fall in love, simply wanting to show students that there is more behind the closet door than what most assume. After watching the show the idea of bringing the show to USF slowly crept and formed inside their minds. This is what my friends, Kari Lena and Jada Plath, experienced when they first watched the show in 2014 at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska. What I like about the play is that Chambers uses her writing to transform the insensitivity that society tends to have towards this matter into a tender story that transcends preconceptions. What was written well over thirty years ago still holds truth of the price that homosexuals pay when they are out of the closet. But as you read further into the script, you learn that throughout the story you begin to sympathize with the difficulties of being gay and how it affects relationships with family, friends, children, parents, and even careers. Throughout the play, Chambers walks us through the journey of a woman who leaves her husband and finds herself wandering the beach of a cove only not knowing that it is a colony made up of lesbians. These are just a few emotions the characters go through in Jane ChambersвЂ™ play, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove.ДЄ few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to perform a show that involved controversial issues.

NOTICE:В This show contains some adult language.Love, laughter, loss, and the fear of being outed. ChambersвЂ™ comedic dialogue, sensitivity to human nature and tender treatment of her characters help the play transcend preconceptions and show the universality of these womenвЂ™s journeys, whether straight or gay. The friendships, the laughter, the love, the fears of being outed, the difficulties of being gay and how it affects relationships with family, children, parents and careers, the demonstrations of what the painful price could be for a gay life 30 years ago in everyday America, had never before been told with such respect. She falls in love with the charming leading character who is harboring a dark secret. Winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and seven Hollywood Drama-Logue Awards, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove is the story of a dissatisfied straight woman who leaves her husband to spend some quiet time by herself and who unwittingly and naively wanders into the midst of a group of seven lesbians at the beginning of their annual beach-side vacation.

Last summer at bluefish cove