The Walk Across America for Mother Earth

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Hope and disillusionment go hand in hand in Taylor Mac's The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, at La MaMa E.T.C.'s Ellen Stewart Theatre. A collaboration with downtown mainstay The Talking Band, Mac's uneven new play is based on the writer-performer's experiences as a teenager when he participated in a nine-month protest walk from New York to the Nevada Nuclear Test Site.

Mac plays Kelly, a young gay man unsure of himself and what he wants to do in life. He's been roped into the walk by his lesbian friend Angie (Daphne Gaines), who is involved in a relationship with fellow walker Marsha (Tina Shepard), who is suffering from cancer.

The ragtag band of activists also includes the group[...]