Danny Sapani plays a working-class, comic counterpart to his recent King Lear in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s jokey melodrama from 2014, about the serious troubles of a retired black New York cop.
Walter ‘Pops’ Washington is a roaringly fierce patriarch, fuelled by love, grievance and whiskey breakfasts. He’s mourning his wife and fighting for compensation from the NYPD after he was shot and rendered impotent eight years before by a younger, white officer. His rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan’s Riverside Drive is a precarious haven for his son Junior’s dodgy associates.
