a solo play adapted and performed by Jonah Scott Mendelsohn
based on Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog by Paul Monette
(505) 395-6490
A profoundly moving
performance that
explores the boundaries
of grief and loss,
life and death...
as it moves toward its
paradoxically life-affirming climax.
Martin Denton
Director Emeritus, the League of Independent Theater
A true story of love persevering
in the face of calamity
In 1986, Paul Monette lost Roger Horwitz, his partner of 12 years, to AIDS. In the five months that followed, Monette wrote an exquisite cycle of poems that traces an epic journey from grief back to the land of living, full of rage, humor, and a love that transcends death.
Actor Jonah Scott Mendelsohn brings this story to the stage in a solo show that gives voice to a lost generation of gay men recalling the courage with which they faced the epidemic and injustice of their time, as we rise to face the injustice of our own.
What audience members are saying
“Exhilarating acting of the beautiful words of Paul Monette.”
“The performance made me feel hopeful, part of a community, reverent.”
"Fantastic! A really important service in portraying the guts of the AIDS crisis and bringing Monette’s poetry to stirring life."
"While the memories are hard, the story needs to be told."
Jonah Mendelsohn receives 2023 Award from the Monette-Horwitz Trust
November 26th, 2022
This award celebrates Jonah's his contribution to combatting homophobia through this stage adaptation of Love Alone. Previous honorees include activist and playwright Larry Kramer, singer / songwriter Jimmy Somerville, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jocelyn Elders.
…twelve years and not once
to fret WHO WILL EVER LOVE ME that was
the heaven at the back of time and we had it
….Death crackles in every
room yet He cannot seem to tell who’s who
as you used to say in your cranked-up bed
playful astonished
But we’re the same person
when did that happen
Contact us
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