Jordan Seavey’s viscerally truthful, sexually charged, deeply psychological play, Homos, Or Everyone In America has actually been leaving an imprint on critics and audiences since it debuted in New York in 2016. Now lastly, thanks to New Theatre and Mardi Gras +, Australian audiences can learn what the difficulty has to do with and what that odd title indicates.
Embed In New York on a timeline that leaps backward and forward in between 2006 and 2011, Homos, Or Everyone In America takes a gay relationship and puts it under the microscopic lense where a complex microcosm of love, sex and politics is exposed.
In this approximately 100 minute, one-act play, the 2 lead characters, understood just at The Writer and The Academic, attempt to build a relationship from an inauspicious, alcohol-infused bar hook-up. What they find is that love does not exist inside a bubble– there’s still all the other parts of life to compete with.
The story is informed in non-chronological pieces that feel detached initially, however ultimately come together to expose the entire photo. Seavey’s play isn’t truly about the huge image, it’s about the pieces, the specific minutes, the numerous naughty devils in the information.
Seavey composes with remarkable and really unexpected candour. This is not a play for pearl-clutchers. It is raw and genuine, though because, not always morbid. It is often laugh-out-loud funny.
Homos, Or Everyone In America checks out styles of monogamy and sexual flexibility, individual and social politics, and the fragility that makes all experiences of love eventually the very same, gay, straight or other.
New Theatre has actually shown time and once again that it is confident to produce works that are edgy, tough, and do not cater the convenience of a conservative audience. It takes threats and its audiences enjoy the benefits.
Homos, Or Everyone In America functions Axel Berecry, Sonya Kerr, Eddie O’Leary and Reuben Solomon, and is directed by Alex Kendall Robson.