All Us Saints

Exactly 19 years ago, in May of 1992, 17-year-old Roland St. Cloud fatally stabbed his twin sister Edna’s three best friends. The slaying became instant tabloid fodder leading to a bestselling true-crime book and horror movie franchise. Each year on the anniversary of her family’s undoing, Edna stages a ritualized reenactment of the murders. She is joined by her husband, Roger, true crime author extraordinaire; her younger sister Calla, a failed playwright who spends her days lost in virtual reality; her younger brother James and his girlfriend Heather; and her teenage daughter Wren. Together, the St. Cloud family seals the windows and doors of the house and lights a grim candle. Thus begins their macabre theater of memory.

All Us Saints is a literary family drama packaged as a two-act play, in whose intermission we glimpse the painful childhood Roland faced as a closeted trans woman in the early ’90s, when queer and trans people were cast as monsters worthy only of shame and vitriol. All Us Saints is a story of life after trauma and a scathing commentary on the cisgender gaze.

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