PURITY BALL


WRITTEN BY: MOLLY MILLER
MUSIC BY: BRAD KEMP
DIRECTED BY: TIFFANI SWALLEY


THE ANNOYANCE THEATER

 
purity quote & photo 00THE CHICAGO READERDirector Tiffani Swalley lets Rooney belt out the best numbers, which she does with abandon.
 
 
 

Purity Ball the Musical, an original musical at The Annoyance Theatre explores the eerily incestuous world of evangelical Christian purity balls: ceremonies in which young girls symbolically give their virginity to their fathers to guard it until they find a husband. Our story follows Isabel, a devout Christian tempted to have sex with the dreamy worship bandleader days before the Colorado Springs Purity Ball. As purity festivities inch towards a bizarre father-daughter love-fest, Isabel must decide: Is purity a myth or does losing your virginity actually make you a broken woman?