“Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.”
“The wisdom of these words from former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty are illustrated beautifully in Dezart Performs’ final production of the season, Mr. Parker.
The new play by Michael McKeever (author of Daniel’s Husband, previously produced by Dezart) tells the story of 54-year-old New York author Terry Parker (David Pevsner), who has just lost his partner of 30 years following a traffic accident.
Terry’s grief has immobilized him. He’s stuck in the past, in many ways. He still uses a land-line telephone and an outdated answering machine, on which he has saved a month-old message from his late husband Jeff, just so he can hear his voice.
A night of heavy drinking culminates in Terry bringing home Justin (Nick Giedris), a 28-year-old bartender/Uber driver. What probably should have been just a one-night stand slowly evolves into a relationship, of sorts…”
