welcome to a taste of theatre where everyone's a star today star is shining bright on gerald call chicago illinois and we will see a clip of his play be not equally yoked to carol please introduce yourself nice we back in two thousand and ten we did beat on an equally yoked and it was a great success with the issue of domestic violence in that particular production ok and what inspired you to bring all revisit that play again well originally we go be not unequally yoked because i'm a minister and oftentimes i get x to marry people and a lot of people they want you to perform the ceremony but they don't want to participate in counseling and we just know that a lot of times people enter into things without really knowing about the person that they're connecting themselves with so we took it from there and the first story we dealt with domestic violence potentially successful people being targeted and trapped into relationships be by pregnancy or emotions and they get trapped into a relationship that may not be may or may not be beneficial to them sounds like more polish lays and gentle yes there and tell me what is it that you want the crowd to walk away with after seeing this play well will probably one of the main things we want with challenge to instruct people on how they should live and and how they should take the bible and make it become practical and the scripture actually says be not on equal yoked so as you  to be careful who you choose to connect your self with because we have involuntary relationships that's our family we have the choice of our family yes but everybody else we choose to connect with them that's true and sometimes we make choices without being fully informed message yet and what was the inspiration for writing not just this play but the prequel well look again we just want people to left their children with the guy and the guy ends up killing the child they're probably worse signals that you weren't dealing with a person with a full day before this incident happened you know there were probably some signs that this person was unbalanced but she chose to ignore them so what we want to tell people is when people show you who they are believe them that's a very good message there and dealing with issues of how we relate within the family because i'm a strong believer that it takes good marriages to make strong families and it takes strong families to be a strong communities and strong communities can run great institution wow so if i had to say a minister what your ministry is in the field of play writing it is to build the family unit strength strengthen the family strength and while you let people know you know kind of the find the roles within the within the family all of the father was the mother the children what's their role that sometimes they're going to make mistakes sometimes all of us going to be off center but we can all come back together and must have a sense of humor because of the personalities and things that he gave people i mean so i mean there's there's laughter within us in that there's healing in that yes there are rules you can take situations and you can find the humor in the in the can strengthen someone else very true all right so we may bore down on the outrages sometimes but everything we do people can relate we just take it to the extreme yes and also i was thinking probably because as a minister you see a lot of different scenarios yes yes we see a lot a lot and we get axed comment about a lot of things yes and to share pena and you know wow we are no experts i tell people you know i learn things through education through revelation through situations and i just try to take those things and apply it to my life and i try to help other people to their lives in the most practical way all right so there are going to be a lot of up and coming playwrights watching now only your play but this interview and they're going to say i want to be like gerald one day what advice or anyone else do what god gave you very unique god gives everyone something special and though there are people who you are supposed to read that no one else will be able to reach so go thing the way god gave it to you and you will touch the people whom you are and that is spirit good advice message always all right so as we always want to say thank you joe for coming on a  traction out of it maybe you'll see the game as we always say the taste of theater where everyone is a star including shakedown is inspirational drama like he said it's a family field wholesome play you got to get a lot of a lot of laughter is and i hope you enjoy it yes it's a comedy but it has a message it has a message that you can take back but also has comedy involved and that's why i think you should really come out and see this play you really enjoy i think you should come out and see this play because the ratchets of the wretched can enjoy it in the save of the saved can enjoy it as well you should come see this play because it's relevant it's relevant to what's going on today in society and it's presented in a way where you can laugh at it but you can also take a message and begin conversations i want the audience to go home with their stomachs in pain because they laugh so hard people should come see the play because there are some very relevant issues and concerns that a lot of people in our community don't want to address or people are involved in and so it's a great inspirational message i think everyone should come check out the play because it's very inspirational and we have you thinking outside of the box and you will really enjoy the message behind it rehearse losing everything i love this play if i was in it i would be at this play just need to say you need to come see this play because you're not doing anything anyway you just sit at home come see live all i think everybody would know someone has dealt with something like this if it wasn't their selves i mean what we're discussing what we're talking about is this topic that every day life in every family has been affected by people keep it in the closet don't want to see it because it's the subsea into it and i think this will make it easier for people to bring it out you know follow your heart no know how you feel about a person and also just be careful who you for who you call your friends what i want people to take from this is you can't figure out who you gonna love different personalities can match up with different other type personalities and have a wonderful relationship what i want people to take back from this play is that no matter what you've been through or what type of person you are true love will find you if you be patient what i want people to get from this play is that no matter who you are matter what you've done in life you can always get a new chance and start over well he said i want everybody to go home with their stomachs hearten but i also want everybody to be inspired by this play because  like some of the cast members say it does have a lot of messages in it and is revelent to some of the things that go on today the message that i want that audience solely with especially women and  is just simply wait be patient what i hope many me and women especially take from this is to know your partner know the person that you are getting involved with and know that you guys are equally yelled what i want people to go home with is knowing day you can find love anywhere and you can you also need to be careful oh where you find love no people are go home after they've laughed after they cried after they've been shot and know that they've been fairly entertaining and it's will money well spent so come out and see something entertaining that you can not get anywhere else written by the incredible gerald hall i would like people to go home with it with dialogue i want to go home and  discuss what they saw and hopefully strikes up some conversations in their homes in make them look at their selves and family and start to heal because so many people are going through things that they haven't started the healing