The issue of the rights that unmarried gay men have over a sick partner’s care is stiffly animated in this mawkish play by Michael McKeever. It belongs to that particular strand of American drama that suggests a tragedy is even more tragic if it happens to rich, funny, gifted people. Alan Souza’s production has a decent cast and a surface gloss that befits this gilded milieu, but the emotional flashpoints feel manufactured and the whole thing gives off an air of contrivance.
We’re in the chi-chi home, that handsome, award-winning young architect Daniel (Joel Harper-Jackson) meticulously designed for himself. He and his partner Mitchell (Luke Fetherston), an equally good-looking and brilliant writer of gay pulp romances, are serving dinner to Mitchell’s agent Barry (David Bedella) and Barry’s much younger new lover, Trip (Raiko Gohara), a home carer for the elderly or disabled. It’s a gushy love-fest of mutual admiration, though Barry is lightly teased about his fondness for wine and toyboys.
