Wren Phoenix is many things: non-binary, neurospicy, an artist, a dog mom, and a Goonie. They’re also a preacher’s kid and a survivor of Project 2025 Christianity.

In “Play Without Ceasing,” Wren Phoenix invites audiences to church, but not the church they remember. Part docudrama, part queer camp, and part witchy, paint-splattered revival, the performance turns the rituals, language, and iconography of evangelical Christianity upside down. What emerges is a messy, raunchy, irreverent reckoning with religious trauma, queer identity, political transformation, and the possibility of resistance.

“Play Without Ceasing” reclaims the church's theatricality from the sermon, the testimony, the ritual, the altar, and the collective gathering, transforming it into something unruly and queer. Through humor, confession, camp, rage, and ritual, the lay searches for what to salvage, transform, or burn down entirely. The result is a theatrical revival for anyone who has ever had to build a new worldview from the wreckage of an old one.

PLAY WITHOUT CEASING

written and performed by Wren Phoenix*

DIRECTOR: Ash Marinaccio*

PRODUCTION DESIGN: Robert A. K. Gonyo

STAGE MANAGER: Bleu Zephra

PRODUCER: Docbloc

PRODUCTION IMAGES: Ash Marinaccio*

WHEN: Saturday, November 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM WHERE: Bechdel Project, 252 Green St, Brooklyn, NY 11222 TICKETS: $30 General Admission / $20 Students/Seniors PURCHASE TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/play-without-ceasing-tickets-2001402444588

PRESS

Broadway World, "Play Without Ceasing to Open at Bechdel Project," September 23, 2026.