Opening Off-Broadway at HERE October 16, Jacob Perkins’ The Gold Room makes its world premiere. Previews began October 14 for the production from performance and media collective i am a slow tide, which will play through November 5.
Scott Parkinson and Robert Stanton star in the play about two middle-aged men who become wrapped up in a haunting roleplay after a chance sexual encounter.
"The Gold Room is an interrogation of the violence I’ve done to myself in response to the violence others have done to me,” shared Perkins in a statement. “It’s about creating a room where I feel safe and secure to love someone who looks and sounds like me. It’s about the looming threat that someone may walk in and disturb that sanctuary. That amidst all of the vulnerability established with another person, we could be invaded or denied or punished…or perhaps simply be seen. The audience watching this process of intimacy unfolding amidst dread and fear is, for me, what it’s like to be a gay person: that notion of being viewed and commented on and either approved of or dismissed. For me, that is the queer canon.”
Director Gus Heagerty helms the queer creative team, which includes set designer Emona Stoykova, lighting designer greer x, costume designer Elizabeth Caitlin Ward, production stage manager Andie Lerner, and producers Sam Max and Anne Troup.
“The Gold Room wrenches the needle forward on our understanding of queer experience,” Heagerty shared in a statement. “It’s a mind-bending inquiry into how a self is formed. How we’ve taken the shame and trauma that was dumped on us and wedged it between our own romantic interludes. Jacob’s pungent text locates the baffling feeling of isolation inside a romantic dynamic.”
For tickets and more information, visit SlowTide.info.
