BLACK TIE is a throw back to a period in time when many people of most audiences who see it can relate to how the world has changed. A friend of mine, David Dubin, portrays the central character in this 1960s-ish play about the relationship an adult man has with his dead father. The play taps into some social situations that were unique in the 60s...parents trying to manipulate the details of an independent adult child's life, racially mixed marriages, what it means to a man to have no more control over the events surrounding him that he may have over the color of his eyes.
David Dubin is a terrific actor who is also a terrific counselor for people with addiction. He and I used to work together at a center for treating adolescents with addiction and their families. A lot of who he is as a person comes out in his acting and it is always genuine, innovative, and spot on characterizations of iconic characters. This play was notable to me for the pathos of what adults sometimes experience with their adult children. Much of what happens in it didn't happen to me and my kids, but I can see why things can go so far awry in families that do not have good communication and the members (particularly the man in them) try to live up to the standards of a distant father.
RPW
David Dubin is a terrific actor who is also a terrific counselor for people with addiction. He and I used to work together at a center for treating adolescents with addiction and their families. A lot of who he is as a person comes out in his acting and it is always genuine, innovative, and spot on characterizations of iconic characters. This play was notable to me for the pathos of what adults sometimes experience with their adult children. Much of what happens in it didn't happen to me and my kids, but I can see why things can go so far awry in families that do not have good communication and the members (particularly the man in them) try to live up to the standards of a distant father.
RPW