Check out this interview with the playright!

http://mormonexpression.com/...

An interview with our producer just posted on A MOTLEY VISION this morning. Here's a link to the post!

http://www.motleyvision.org/2010/dave-mortenson-crowdfunding-little-happy-secrets/

The following is an excerpt taken from a larger feature written by Eric Samuelson regarding on the playwright, Melissa Leilani Larson. The full article can be viewed at the Provo Orem Word.

...she writes wonderful plays about, at times, tough, controversial issues, but her plays somehow don’t seem radical because she’s so much more interested in character than in controversy. In what I think is her best play, “Little Happy Secrets,” a young woman named Claire is a returned missionary, a modest and thoughtful young woman committed to the tenets of her faith. Claire has also fallen in love with Brennan, her roommate. She fasts and prays, she struggles to control her feelings. Finally, she confesses how she feels, and Brennan is hurt, shocked, horrified. The friendship is irreparably damaged.

So it’s a Mormon play about homosexuality? Not really. Larson’s play is never contentious or overtly political. She doesn’t condemn Claire—she also doesn’t condemn the Church, or LDS culture. Her focus is, as always, on character, on human beings dealing with impossible dilemmas. The conclusions the play draws are similarly modest—Claire sits outside the temple weeping while Brennan is sealed in marriage. And yet we sense that Claire is going to survive, though heart broken, and that the Church is going to remain the center of her life.

The Association for Mormon Letters honored “Little Happy Secrets” with its annual award in drama for 2009. On the certificate for the award—which I found on her website—is this: “Larson has written a play, not a polemic. If anything, the play is a celebration, of a culture rooted in compassion, of a plan that requires heartbreak and loss and pain. A celebration of heartbreak. Larson writes dialogue with a directness and simple eloquence, in which the characters move from conversations with each other to a larger conversation with the audience and, through us, with Mormonism itself. How can we love, how can we persist in loving, knowing our hearts will be broken, our spirits made contrite?”