(fruit)ion
.the synopsis.
It’s a live-looping musical about repressed gay moms.
When Lydia and Sam, a young queer couple in love, decide it’s time to introduce their mothers, Gladys and Trish, they brace for the usual nerves of coming out. But something unexpected happens—something deeper than judgment or approval. As the past and future intertwine, Gladys and Trish are confronted with echoes of their own buried desires, the lives they could have lived, and the parts of themselves they locked away long ago.
With a score built live on stage by two looping artists—who embody both ancestral ghosts and voices of the future, commissioned by The Goodman Theatre, with a book by Krystal Ortiz, (fruit)ion explores queerness as a legacy, reincarnated through generations. It’s a story of mothers and daughters, of longing and liberation, and of what happens when long-repressed truths rise to the surface—sometimes in ways no one sees coming.