Jerome

Jerome, a ghost town in the secluded Arizona backcountry, is home to Con and Doane, an aging gay couple who have built a quiet life far from the chaos of cities and other people. But when a stranger arrives, fleeing his damaged past, and falls into their arms, their carefully constructed world is upended. Set at the height of the AIDS epidemic, John J. Caswell, Jr.'s new play is an unexpectedly funny, delicately wrought story of survival, connection, and the necessity of human contact, even in the harshest of deserts.

Caswell, Jr., a playwright from Arizona and recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, returns to Playwrights Horizons after his acclaimed Wet Brain, which The New York Times called "a very funny, pitch-black comedy" in a Critic's Pick review. The production is directed by Obie Award winner Dustin Wills, who reunites with Caswell for their second collaboration. Presented at Playwrights Horizons' Judith O. Rubin Theater.

Post Performance Discussions: May 19 & May 20.