A play about love, death and blow jobs. While grappling with a sense of alienation and the spirit of his tragically deceased mother, Nate, a gay artist falls in love with James, his delightfully strange and unusual model. As their relationship grows, we discover why we are on earth, what Walt Whitman really meant, if James Franco is gay and what happened to J D Salinger. Don’t miss it.

Audience Responses

It was fantastic!

Rating - 5. Firstly the actors/readers were extremely good, they fitted/played their parts perfectly. The play was very amusing, but it had an undertone of deep sadness. I thought it was very funny and touching. The above sounds more like a comment on wine!

Funny, clever, I loved the Cock Poem!!

Funny, clever, I loved the Cock Poem!!

4

Entertaining, funny, relevant - a delightfully fresh and humourous take on issues of loss, grief, ethnicity and love - with the world's only pillow-scarf wearing Jewish Mama. Even the parts that seemed possiby a bit iffy on first reading of the script, came alive during the actual play reading , and worked and perfectly The three of us loved it and look forward to seeing the stage production

Very funny!

What a great play! Brilliant premise and idea. Very very funny, I had such a brilliant laugh. I cannot wait to see this in full production. Cannot wait. Great performances all round by actors I truly admire. Also great stage directions and barking. I'm a fan.

I enjoyed it! It's a lovely idea and is going to look good on stage. I think it just needs a little bit of cutting and shuffling around.

It was well crafted and brilliantly performed.

First 'reading' experience but great dialogue. Would be great to see this turned into a play.

Very funny!

5 stars. OUTSTANDING

First, thank you for inviting me to the reading. I've been missing the Play Club readings and so I hope your 'table readings' will become a regular feature of the Alexander's life. Very useful for letting us hear new work. This was an excellent example of its kind - a sort of Neil Simon with something happening underneath the snappy one-liners and scene punchlines. Very clever idea - I wonder if Alan Ayckbourn ever thought of the dead mama idea. What was lovely was the gradual way in which realisation dawned on one. Then one said, 'Of course, yes!' The only thing I would questions is what will happen onstage when a character ends a scene in one set of clothes and then opens the very next scene in a completely different set of clothes and with a whole array of different props and stage dressing. The author will have to find a good solution to that. The last thing this play needs is long breaks between scenes. So, all round, I would say that David Kaplan has a very successful piece on his hands, with some staging problems that need solving. Now he needs someone to fund and stage it. It goes without saying that what makes this kind of reading as successful as this one was is a really good cast of professionals. Thanks for the experience.