About this Event
Hear this award winning feature lenght screenplay read by professional actors from Detroit and New Orleans in the beautiful Third Avenue Garage, Detroit Public Theater's exceptional venue. Free and open to the public.
Slated to be filmed in Detroit and New Orleans, Unlocking Desire will be a feature length, drama, mystery, LGBTQ+ art house film.
Like Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, Unlocking Desire transforms a masterpiece:,Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire., to tell another story, a back story, a new story. Unlocking Desire unlocks the past and the present with the saving grace of love, leaving us with hope for the future.
A new original recording of the ballad Heavenly Grass, music by Paul Bowles and lyrics by Tennessee Williams, will introduce the reading and set the mood. Rarely heard, the ballad features vocals by Ethan Daniel Davidson and instrumentals by Gretchen Gonzales, Warren Defever and Jordan Schug.
Come one come all! We welcome the LGBTQIA+ community, people concerned about the effects of climate change on mental health, those that love a story with strong female characters, Tennessee Williams fans and scholars, film lovers and history buffs! We want to meet you! The DPT Bar will be open for refreshments.
Detroit Public Theatre is located at 3960 Third Avenue between Selden and Alexandrine Streets.
Free Parking on the street or at DPTs paved parking lot just one block north of the theatre at 4134 Third Avenue, between Alexandrine and Willis Street.
The Unlocking Desire Film Project is honored to have received a ‘Space Grant’ from the Detroit Public Theater making their exceptional venue, Third Avenue Garage, affordable for the Unlocking Desire filmmakers
Event venue & nearby stays
Detroit Public Theatre, 3960 3rd Avenue, Detroit, United States
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