In 2013, Luke O’Donovan is arrested after a knife fight at a New Year’s party. The media portrays him as a maniac who went on a stabbing spree. Luke says he’s the victim of a queer-bashing, punished for fighting back. In 2014, theatre artist Johnnie Walker begins writing letters to Luke in prison and working on a new play.

A fierce and freewheeling exploration of a powerful true story, Shove It Down My Throat puts queerness, identity, and complicity through a theatrical kaleidoscope as Johnnie sifts through the different versions of Luke’s story — and the different versions of Luke — in search of the ever-elusive truth.

A Buddies in Bad Times and Pandemic Theatre production

by JOHNNIE WALKER

directed by TOM ARTHUR DAVIS

starring JOHNNIE WALKER, DANIEL CARTER, WILLARD GILLARD, KWAKU OKYERE, CRAIG PIKE, HEATH V SALAZAR + ANDERS YATES