About the Show

A hate crime victim confronts the past in a restorative justice setting, exploring empathy & memory.

Orin, a victim of an anti-trans hate crime that separated him from his wife, now resides in the childhood home of the offender as part of a restorative justice initiative. Struggling with solitude and haunted by memories, he must navigate the relics of the past and confront the events that transform individuals into monsters.

Narrated by six performers traversing through time, The Valley of the Shadow delves into themes of empathy and recollection, addressing aspects of queerness, race, accountability, and survival. It unfolds as both a love story and, more often, a ghost story.

Critic Reviews (1)

This major victory for underrepresented voices in theatre departs from the convention of discovery and coming out. Instead of confronting identity, love, and gender, it confronted how challenges of people who live familiar, ordinary lives, who have their lives taken from them simply because of the bodies they were born in. If the characters were cisgender, the violence would have been senseless. I applaud The Valley of the Shadow for depicting trans people as people, not oddities or commodities
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Wolfsmouth Players Company