Predator Pray

Hawthorne

When

Apr. 8–19, 2025

Days Vary, Times vary

Cost: See Details

Where

Fuse Theatre Ensemble – The Back Door Theater

4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Portland, OR 97215

Predator Pray is a challenging new two-act thriller making its world premiere at the Backdoor Theatre as part of the Fertile Grounds festival with the support of the festival’s GROW Grant. This gripping drama is the first full-length play by playwright and local queer theater artist Pearson Kunz — a proud member of FUSE Theatre Ensemble.

Set in the immaculate kitchen of a devout Mormon household, Predator Pray unfolds the morning after Joseph returns home from his two-year mission, only to find that his queer best friend, Devon, has mysteriously vanished in his absence. As Joseph struggles to reconnect with his life, his mother, Evelyn, exerts a suffocating control over their reunion, spinning a tangled web of faith, deception, and moral reckoning. What begins as an intimate family drama spirals into a chilling confrontation with faith that forces Joseph to face the darkest depths of his home, his past, and himself. With razor-sharp dialogue and a slow-burning tension that builds to a shocking conclusion, Predator Pray explores repression, queerness, and the devastating consequences of extreme faith.