Lecesne, a crusader in support of LGBTQ issues, is the co-founder of the national organization “The Trevor Project,” inspired by his 1995 Academy Award-winning film “Trevor,” that has for more than two decades provided youth-crisis intervention and suicide-prevention services. Issues of gender identity, sexual orientation and freedom of expression course through this parable about a free-spirited boy who, in life, touched an entire community, while also addressing the impact of life-threatening bullying that has resulted in the rise of documented hate crimes in America.
The play is framed by the point-blank recollections of Chuck and the quest for clues to crack the case. We meet a vast array of fascinating and eccentric characters from Foust’s deep artistic well. When stylist Ellen Hertle arrives in Chuck’s office with her daughter Phoebe to file a missing person report, she describes her brother’s ex-girlfriend’s son, a special, sensitive boy who worked in her salon, Hair Today, who she took in after his mother’s death.