Silver City, NM — Playwright, actor, Biblical scholar, and activist Peterson Toscano will perform his one-person play Transfigurations at Light Hall on the WNMU campus, Wednesday, November 18, starting at 7:30 PM. Admission is free, and the performance will be preceded by a short candlelight vigil at 6:30 in honor of the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Peterson Toscano has shaken up Bible academics and received high praise for his ground-breaking, genre-bending, gender blending Bible scholarship. By unearthing the stories of gender-variant people in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, Toscano's one-person play deepens well-known (and lesser-known) Bible stories and presents an array of Bible characters with an array of genders. Toscano portrays those Biblical characters who do not fit in the gender binary, and who in transgressing and transcending gender, find themselves at the center of some of the Bible's most important stories.
Co-sponsored by The Center for Gender Equity, PFLAG Silver City, and the Silver City United Church of Christ, this performance will entertain and enlighten the audience. As Dale Martin, Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University said, "Peterson Toscano's work combines astute reading of the Bible with great story-telling and comedy. He offers interpretations of the texts and insights that even experienced biblical scholars haven't seen before. When portrayed by Toscano, Bible stories and characters come to life with wit, sympathy, and humor."
More information is available at Toscano's website www.petersontoscano.com or by calling Damie Nelson at PFLAG Silver City, 575-590-8797.