The Seat Next to the King - Elliott Jackson, Steven
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"In 1964, a white man walks into a public restroom in a Washington, DC park looking for sex. The next man who enters is a black man. In what seems at first to be a simple encounter, The Seat Next to the King explores the lives of two men from the pages of history who literally sat next to the most powerful men in America--Bayard Rustin, a friend to Martin Luther King Jr. who organized the March on Washington, and Walter Jenkins, top aide and friend to President Lyndon Johnson. An exploration of sexuality, race, and masculinity, The Seat Next to the King imagines a meeting between two men,…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
"In 1964, a white man walks into a public restroom in a Washington, DC park looking for sex. The next man who enters is a black man. In what seems at first to be a simple encounter, The Seat Next to the King explores the lives of two men from the pages of history who literally sat next to the most powerful men in America--Bayard Rustin, a friend to Martin Luther King Jr. who organized the March on Washington, and Walter Jenkins, top aide and friend to President Lyndon Johnson. An exploration of sexuality, race, and masculinity, The Seat Next to the King imagines a meeting between two men, burdened by their prejudices and inner conflicts, as they attempt to find a connection."--
Autorenporträt
Steven Elliott Jackson is an award-winning playwright and artistic director of Minmar Gaslight Productions and its family theatre company, 3 Little Bears Productions with his partner Todd Davies and Stephen English. His play The Seat Next to the King won Best New Play and Patron's Pick at The Toronto Fringe in 2017 and his play The State of Tennessee placed second in the same contest in 2007. Previous playwriting credits include: Brothers and Arms (2010, Toronto Fringe), The Dark Part of the Snow (2011, Mount Marty College, Yankton, SD), Real Life Superhero (2012, Winchester Street Theatre), The State of Tennessee (2013, Theatre Passe Muraille), Rapunzel (adaptation from the work of Geri Gans, 2014, Toronto Fringe), Threesome: An Evening of One-Acts (2016, Red Sandcastle Theatre). Steven was born and raised in the very small town of Minto, Manitoba and went to the University of Regina to study theatre and film before moving to Toronto.