BARE: A Pop Opera by John Hartmere and Damon Intrabartolo

BARE follows the tragic love story of Jason and Peter, two students at a Catholic boarding school, as they struggle with being homosexual adolescents under the pressures of modern society and religious institutions. The play follows the course of their clandestine love from their bitter attempts to reveal themselves to the world to the tragic final graduation scene where they have broken up, Jason has gotten a classmate pregnant and overdosed, and Peter is left to pick up the pieces. BARE tackles not only the theme of young homosexuality but also the gamut of problems plaguing our modern American youth. From body image to teen pregnancy, from drug culture to parental expectations, “Bare” lays them all out for scrutiny.