#family-abuse

#family-abuse

My mom joined a religious cult when I was about 8 years old. I wasn't buying their shit even as a child and was not going to let them drag me in. I was still around for a couple of years and saw everything that was going on. She's still in it today, over 30 years later. My uncle is there, and two cousins. One cousin got out/was kicked out and has been out for about 15 years.

The play, onstage at Southeast Portland's 21ten Theatre, takes place in the orchard of Lissie and Roger's childhood home in rural Oregon, which they fled as teens 25 years before. Returning for their father's funeral, Lissie (Paulina Jaeger-Rosete) is visited by Billy (Michael Heidingsfelder), someone she briefly knew in high school. When Billy offers to buy the property, memories of her painful childhood come back to her.