Carol Carpenter’s play Sweet, Sweet Spirit examines the fallout for a conservative Christian family in West Texas when the enraged father beats his teenage son into a coma after discovering that his son is gay. Fear of someone who is “other” fuels the father’s rage, as well as the family’s own confused and conflicting responses to a tragic situation. In a 2017 production at the Academy of Music Theatre (Northampton, MA), Lindel Hart played Kendall Kuykendall, the boy’s music teacher who as a teen was also abused by the boy’s father, his childhood friend.
Lindel Hart with Jay Sefton in Sweet, Sweet Spirit. 
Lindel Hart with Jaris Hanson in Sweet, Sweet Spirit. 
Lindel Hart with Stephanie Carlson, Melenie Freedom Flynn, and Tommy Harte in Sweet, Sweet Spirit.
