Theatrix, a student-run theater company in UNL’s Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, opens its season Oct. 1 with the Carol Lynn Pearson play “Facing East.”

Performances are 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1-3 and 2 p.m. Oct 4 in the Lab Theatre on the third floor of UNL’s Temple Building.

The product is directed by Chadwick Taylor, a second-year Master of Fine Arts student.

“The play is about faith, family and love — and how questioning can create a tension you never knew was there,” Taylor said.

In “Facing East,” Andrew McCormick was a gifted 24-year-old cellist who ended his life outside of a Mormon temple — the one place that both connected and alienated him from his family. When his parents, Alex (played by Will Voelker) and Ruth (Hunter McDonald) attend their son’s service, Alex decides to give his son a proper reckoning before God.

As they reveal the grief they’ve been afraid or unable to show, the family meets Marcus (Jordan Charley-Whatley), Andrew’s live-in boyfriend who is intent on saying his own final goodbye.

The product is designed by Alecia Ojeda (set and props), Mattie McIntosh and Maxx Finn (lighting), and Emily Kuklinski (sound). Tony Papousek is the stage manager.

Tickets are $6 and available online or in the third-floor lobby an hour before each performance.