Side Man
March 13 - April 11, 2009
Playwright:
Warren Leight
Director:
Sherrionne Brown
Cast:
Dave Gamble, Adele Russell, Sean Mullin, Roy Hammond, Michael Leicht, Carl Stevens, Anne O'Reilly
This award-winning play by Warren Leight pays tribute to a lost era of jazz and big bands, a time before the birth of rock n’ roll when jazz musicians were legends. Side Man is the story of Clifford, a young man and the son of a jazz musician, who recalls his tortured relationship with his parents. As the play moves seamlessly from the present to the past, Clifford struggles to give up the role he has assumed as ‘parent’ to his mother and father.
powerfully unsettling ... an enormously moving play
Peter Marks, The New York Times