Alexi Kaye Campbell’s drama The Pride begins and ends with parallel images of two men onstage together. Oliver and Philip are handsome Londoners in their late 20s or early 30s, palpably attracted to each other but unable to consummate the feeling. But the Oliver and Philip in the first scene aren’t the Oliver and Philip in the last scene; though they share names, the two pairs are separated by 50 years. The action jumps back and forth between 1958 and 2008 to juxtapose two gay relationships in crisis.
The play’s title refers to London’s annual gay pride festival, an event that the Oliver and Philip of 1958 never could have imagined. It’s there that the 2008 pair—drawn together by an actress friend, again named Sylvia—may or may not find a way to bridge the gulf between sex and love, which can be as daunting in today’s permissive environment as it was in the repressive past.
Through 7/13: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 5 and 9 PM, Sun 5 PM; no show Thu 7/4, additional show Mon 7/87:30 PM
2433 N. Lincoln
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$30
