Strange!
The Knightly Quest
Directed by Fred Abrahamse and Marcel Meyer
@ Provincetown Brewing Co, 141 Bradford St
A gay vampire escapes from an American police state in a getaway spaceship. A very unusual story by Tennessee Williams (or by anyone else) adapted for the stage by Capetown South Africa’s Fred Abrahamse and Marcel Meyer.
The Knightly Quest begins ominously. An epicene man named Gewinner Pearce returns to the small American city he was raised in, also called Gewinner. In Gewinner’s absence the town has been taken over by The Project, an industrial plant guarded by barbed wire and dogs. Rumor has it The Project is developing a weapon capable of destroying the Earth.
Lodging in the tower of the Gothic castle where he lived as a child, Gewinner resumes his habit of prowling after midnight, wearing “… a Persian coin, very ancient, that hung on a fine silver chain. He enjoyed the cold feeling of it as it swung pendulumlike across his ribs and bare nipples. It was carrying a secret.”