With intro by BLUEBARN Associate Artistic Director Randall T. Stevens. This event anticipates BLUEBARN’s production of “Heathers: The Musical.”
A bizarre fever dream that blends tropes from 80s teen comedies with John Waters weirdness and a twist of Lynchian horror, HEATHERS is the story of Veronica Sawyer (peak Winona Ryder), a member of her high school’s most powerful clique who nevertheless recognizes her friends for the vain bullies that they are. Enter Christian Slater as nonconformist new-kid-in-town J.D., who helps Veronica launch a campaign to avenge the victims of her popular friends’ pettiness. Their do-goodery takes a dark turn, and as perfect, teenage bodies start to stack up, Veronica begins to ponder the eternal question, “Are we going to prom or to hell?”
Those who purchase online tickets in advance of the May 9 screening will automatically be entered to win a pair of passes to “Heathers: The Musical.”