Hassan and Sylvia

"They met at The Townhouse, that venerable East Side Institution where Men in Tweed meet Boys In Need."


Winner Best Play,
Best Actress
Fresh Fruit Festival 2010


Hassan and Sylvia is included in New York Theater Experience's Anthology, Plays and Playwrights 2011 available at http://shop.nyte.org/









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Our hero is a thirty-something gay man reeling from the sudden death of his longtime lover and the loss of the home they shared. After months of isolation, he makes his first venture into the world and goes to a nightclub to hear an old friend sing. There he meets an exotic couple - a dashing, young Arabic man and a glamorous older woman, Hassan and Sylvia - who surround him with their charms. Along for the ride is their driver, Jimmy, who has more than traffic on his mind, and Velma, a foul-mouthed bag lady who may or may not know exactly what's going on. This mysterious quartet draws our hero into a spicy soup from which he may or may not emerge in one piece.

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