"Botticelli in the Fire" - Michigan Premiere

Experience the Michigan premiere of this hot-blooded contemporary queering of Renaissance Italy which questions how much of ourselves we are willing to sacrifice when society comes off the rails. Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear - and the wife - of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as Florence's hottest young apprentice, Leonardo. But while he is at work on his breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticelli's devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival.

*All performances offer pay-what-you-want tickets*

Cast:
Sandro Botticelli - Nate Reynolds
Clarice Orsini - Kendra Jones
Lorenzo de'Medici - Joe Carmolli
Poggio di Chullu - Noah King-Bates
Girolamo Savonarola - Michael Dodge
Madre Maria - Alli Metz
Leonardo da Vinci - Chris Smith