Glendale Community College faculty member, and acclaimed playwright, Kirt Shineman is having one of his works performed at the ASU Kerr Cultural Center this week.
“The Kissing Curse” is about injustice in America during the 1940s, according to a GCC news release. Set in the Black ward in a mental hospital in Texas, the play tells the story of Nurse Elinor, a patient in her charge, and her battle with a doctor from the National Institute of Health who performs unethical experiments to find the cause of Chagas disease. Based on real events, “The Kissing Curse” explores the pathology of racism as well as the pathology of parasites.
The production will take the stage at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29; Friday, Sept. 30; and Saturday, Oct. 1 inside the B3 Theater at the ASU Kerr Cultural Center, 6110 N. Scottsdale Road, in Paradise Valley.
