ROUGH TRADE

by Kev Berry
The Tank
2023

cast: Remy Germinario, Max Kantor, Derek Christopher Murphy, Gabriel Neumann

scenic designer: Brendan Gonzales Boston
costume designer: Jason Lewis
lighting designer: Jonathan Cottle
sound designer: Amelia Way
projections designer: Cleo Perez
props supervisor: Sam Leopold

line producer: Michael Sheehan
stage manager: Max Mooney

SELECTED PRESS

“It’s a terrific ensemble that plays well under Alex Tobey’s precise direction. Plus, the final sound cue will, for any show tune queen, draw a laugh of recognition and stand as a wry comment on the whole undertaking.”
— Gay City News

“Rough Trade is a ferociously funny new work, unforgiving in its assessment of New York’s toxic gay community. Alex Tobey’s bare-bones staging is sharp and focused, lending shape to a piece that could easily get lost in its many monologues and screaming matches.”
— Queerty

“Director Alex Tobey keeps the nearly two-hour production zippy, taut, and focused. At yesterday’s performance, the audience looked a whole lot like the characters on stage. Playing just on the outskirts of Hell’s Kitchen, Rough Trade is right at home.”
— The Broadway Blog

“This is one of those smart and funny plays about love and sex and New York City that you just know is eventually going to turn serious.  And when it does, it packs quite a wallop in a way that is specific to gay men, though I suspect members of other marginalized groups can adapt a climactic scene to their experiences. When it comes to having an awareness of whose shoulders you’re standing on, Rough Trade becomes universally discussion worthy.”
— OnStage Blog

“All four actors soar under Alex Tobey's less-is-more direction. It takes place on the all-white platform with the actors grabbing items (mostly cocktails) from visible prop tables on either side. This allows the stage action to drive forward.”
— TheaterMania

Photos by Hunter Canning