GMTWP Alum Joe Iconis (Cycle 14) who also co-wrote the recent Broadway musical BE MORE CHILL had a production of his newest musical Love in Hate Nation at the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank, NJ.
A turbulent rock romance and set in a 1960s Juvie Hall, Love in Hate Nation uses classic “bad girl” movies as the inspiration for the story of young people caught between eras of a changing America. Sixteen-year old Susannah Son is carted off to the National Reformatory for Girls to get her head put on straight. There she meets the aggressively incorrigible Sheila Nail, and a relationship forms which leads to an all-out “revolution in the institution” as they attempt to break out of the boxes society has created around them. Girl Group Wall of Sound harmonies are filtered through a punk rock spirit in this rebellious and romantic new musical.