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FACING EAST returns to Plan-B Theatre, honoring the memory of playwright and LGBTQ+ advocate Carol Lynn Pearson
by Jerry Rapier Jerry Rapier In August of 2005, playwright Carol Lynn Pearson invited 10 people, including me and her dear friend, philanthropist Bruce Bastian, to a private reading of the very first, very raw draft of her new play, FACING EAST. Carol Lynn Pearson She sat in the middle of a borrowed living room in downtown Salt Lake City and read all three roles: Ruth and Alex McCormick, the quintessential Mormon power couple whose gay son has committed suicide, and Marcus, their son’s partner whom they meet for the first time, graveside.