After a pause close to two years, Victory Gardens Theater officially reopened for business Saturday night with a new two-character play by travis tate , a sweet if slight father-son drama about bonding in the woods. Pursued by bears.
The play, just over 80 minutes long, is focused on a great staple of American drama: the complicated father-son relationship set in Texas. In this case, we meet Ty , a young gay man on a wilderness jaunt with Stephen , his divorced dad. [Most read] Mayor Lori Lightfoot ripped staffer for memo on General Iron’s controversial scrap shredder plan because it could be made publicI get that: tate surely doesn’t want to fall into the harmless stereotype of the authoritarian Black father dismissing his gay son. But the resulting problem is finding enough dramatic conflict in the piece.