Made for Each Other isn’t a gay play, it’s a play that just so happens to have gay characters in the leads. The story is one that can be about anyone and the themes and struggles with life ubiquitous across the Kinsey scale.
Vincent is a down-on-himself gay man in his 50s who is struggling to understand how Jerry, a man he has only been on three dates with, can already be proposing to him”¦ over the phone, nonetheless. Jerry, on the other hand, is confident that he knows after only three dates there is no man better suited for him. Throughout the course of the show the two men, brilliantly played by John Fico, open up about their dreams and loves, fears and insecurities, and those moments in life when we feel on top of the world, but also feel so lonely.
The show’s best comedic and touching moments come from Vincent’s Alzheimer’s-inflicted mother, who is wonderfully eccentric but not over-the-top campy and Jerry’s grandfather, who has been dead for some time now from a smoking-related death but hasn’t lost his ability to laugh or hack up a lung. They both report what they see and how they feel from inside the heads of their respective sons. Both characters are again played magnificently by Fico.
Written by Monica Bauer and directed by John D. FitzGibbon, this one man show explores the relationships between lovers, family and the difficult task of being open and honest with the ones you love. At times sad and at times laugh-out-loud funny, Made for Each Other is a sweet and tender love story that transcends sexuality and reminds us that love is universal.
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