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Endorsement from Bob Rosen
By Steven Fales | August 17, 2010
“I have had the good fortune to see the first two parts of Steven Fales’s The Mormon Boy Trilogy in Los Angeles and have had lengthy discussions about the prospects of incorporating his ground-breaking work in theatre into the context of an equally ground-breaking feature-length documentary. The subject matter of his performances and their powerful presentation manage to mix oil and water: to be an once intensely personal and broadly social, deeply moving and intellectually provocative, serious in content and genuinely entertaining. His tour de force one-man shows elude easy closure, but instead provoke questions that stay with the spectator long after he or she has left the theater.”
“It is precisely these intrinsically interactive qualities that make this particular theater piece one that has the potential to become a compelling and highly original film — questions (and self questioning) — about the story behind the story, the personal motivations that make taking the risk of telling it so necessary, the thoughtful, even painful examination of what it reveals, and what remains hidden, and finally, why its very form as a work of art is intrinsic to its message — in short a film that has the potential to move audiences, provoke reflection, and I might add, sell tickets and win festival awards.”
Robert Rosen
Professor and Dean Emeritus
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Co-founder of Outfest
Father and Pioneer of the Film Preservation Movement
10-year film critic, NPR
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