2008-05-04 
 

the dirty gay play

A good friend of mine is directing a play in New York called F*ck Me, B*eat Me, L*ve Me, but given the difficulty of pronouncing an asterisk in normal conversation, he also refers to it as the dirty gay play. G and I had a chance to see it this weekend and enjoyed ourselves. Great acting and interesting structure. (and, of course, superb direction!)

While I'd love to recommend it to everyone, the play isn't for the faint of heart. It's about a couple searching for something deeper in their relationship and focuses heavily on the sexual side of things with full on nudity and simulated sex. I'm happy to report that the actors are both very nice to look at AND very good at actually acting, an often hard combo to come by. As for the sex, other than one particular scene which I ultimately decided was sweet, it ends up being either comic or slightly sad versus sensationalistic. That said, there's a S/M slant throughout the play that could prove challenging, even to those who have no issues with the gay part. (If it weren't for certain friends who've been wiling to share that side of their lives with me openly and honestly, I would have had a much harder time understanding the L*ve Me side of the play. As it was, it was only in a conversation with B after the play that I realized I'd allowed two bits of the text to color my interpretation of the action throughout and ended up experiencing a much less hopeful ending than was intended.) If one of my tens of readers can make it, please do so and let me know. I'd love to chat with you about it after the fact and hear your reactions to it. Hopeful or not, the acting and text make it a worthwhile way to spend the evening.

In other news, I want to say hooray for meeting up in NYC! We got to see, not only a group of my college friends who all went to dinner and then the play, but also V, P and little D. D has grown up so much in the short time we've been gone and it was very nice to see her turning into her own person. (I think that ages 2 through 5 are some of my favorite ages to watch. So much potential and so many possibilities!)

Labels: local getaway, random review, shout out

* posted by me at 3:06 PM

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