New play centers on four LGBTQ former vaudeville performers who meet in Provincetown in 1959
Early on in “Unpacking in P’town,” a character says, “We tend to be more realistic when we’re half-naked and holding an umbrella drink” — and while the statement may seem a bit dubious, the rest of the play bears it out.
“My grandmother Lydia was a dancer and a singer, and ‘Unpacking’ is loosely based on her and her friends, many of whom were LGBTQ,” Gomez said in an interview with The Examiner. “Scottie is afraid to tell his father that, No. 1, he’s gay, No. 2, his lover is Black,” Gomez said. “So he tries to get Lydia to pretend to be his girlfriend.”
In the warm embrace of friends who over the years have become family — not to mention the swimwear and umbrella drinks — each of the four main characters is finally able to recognize this fact and act on it. Robert Moses’ KIN dance company to perform at Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center Robert Moses’ KIN dance company performs at Presidio Theatre
The other two plays in Gomez’s trilogy also focus on real people. The first play, “Waiting for Giovanni,” is a historical fiction about James Baldwin, an internationally recognized African American author and activist who was also gay.
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