A Perfect Future

by David Hay

www.aperfectfuture.com

Former radicals reunite at the home of an international banker and his wife. Noting their friend, an AIDS charity worker, is single, the couple invite a handsome employee of the bank. Once drunk, he reveals the office to be a toxic environment. Racist jokes are de rigeur. This leads to a reckoning about their politics and to an even more urgent question for the couple: what sort of betrayal is their marriage? Is it just their ideals or more?

Licensing

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Original Production: Cherry Lane Theater, New York. Directed by Wilson Milam, Produced by Andy Sandberg.

Cast: Donna Bullock, Scott Drummond, Daniel Oreskes, Michael T. Weiss.

All rights: BroadwayPlayPublishing.com, www.aperfectfuture.com

‘A ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ of sixties counterculture…radical chic becomes radical pique! A slick play by David Hay.’ The New Yorker.

‘A darkly comic American tragedy by David Hay…it left me in a daze, reeling from the emotional roller coaster ride.’ ‘Show Business’

‘A buoyant game of badminton with witty dialogue”, ‘The New York Times.

Personal Note: The playwright, Larry Kramer, told me he worried the play may not have the success it deserved because ‘people aren’t interested in racism anymore.” This was before Black Lives Matter and the change in national consciousness it inspired. Now, ‘A Perfect Future’ is timelier than ever.