August 6-11, Durango PlayFest hosts local and national, professional and emerging theatre artists for an unparalleled performing arts and theatre festival experience. From staged readings to talkbacks, panel discussions to happy hours; meet, greet and share your perspectives with professional artists from around the country. Staged reading of New York playwright Emily Dendinger’s God Hates You. Laurel has always been the apple of the church’s eye. As the church founder’s granddaughter, she’s the first person to volunteer to picket funerals of dead soldiers, knows what to say to strike a nerve in a crowd, and can debate the Bible with the best of them. Despite the constant hate mail and death threats, she knows she’s saving the sinners of the world before the end of days arrives. However, when Laurel joins social media to spread the church’s word, she’s faced for the first time with the outside world, and soon everything she believes is called into question. God Hates You asks what it means to grow up in a church dedicated to spreading hate and intolerance, and what happens when the faith you’ve rigorously adhered to your whole life comes shattering down around you.