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Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
directed by Omari Douglas
1 May 2022, Shipwright
Readers Daniel Monks, Omari Douglas, David McAlmont, David Carlyle, Ken Christiansen, Elander Moore, Laurie Kynaston and Otoamere Guobadia
Music by Hugo Hamlet
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“An antidote to shame” Garth Greenwell
In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.
David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni's curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella's return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy.
Omari Douglas (It’s a Sin; Cabaret; Constellations; RUSH) leads a revolving cast of performers, in this epic unabridged reading of a landmark queer text.
