When I’m with this group of people, I’m that guy. Like, when I am with this group of people, I’m this guy. We are different people in different social contexts. I think that is a reality all of us have. Beyond that, John talks about feeling like he is two different people with his two partners. Thinking about the instability of identity, the fact that we can change throughout our lives, and things that we consider solid can change whether it be gender or sexuality. When they do, sometimes we lose our sense of identity. The idea that we tie our sense of identity to identifiers that may change and can change environmentally. On the surface, it is about sexuality, but underneath it all and the main conflict my character, John, is facing is this notion of identity. To me, the show raises an interesting question about identity. What do you hope audiences take away from the show? No, but I have friends who have reached out to me saying they enjoyed it. Those aspects make it very unique.ĭo you know how the show has been received by audiences?
It is like nothing else and may be like nothing that continues to exist once theaters reopen. I often wanted to have an opportunity to shoot something that is rehearsed longer, so it is just an interesting hybrid. The length of the text would be shot over a prolonged period of time with no rehearsal. You would rehearse for a few minutes or an hour before they set up lights, but you would shoot a script of its length over two weeks or something. Usually for film or television, you would not rehearse at all. Then we shot it in one day, which is really different. We rehearsed for about four weeks in a room together, and there were some holdups because of testing and COVID protocols, so we rehearsed a little bit over Zoom, but also in person. That changed things, and then the way it was a hybrid of theatre and streaming, we rehearsed in a traditional theatre way. I think everybody was well aware how lucky we were to go back in a theatre, and we are very grateful to be in a room with other actors and artists again after the live performance medium has been decimated by the pandemic. This specific production is different because this is the first time all these theatre artists have been in a theatre together in a year. How would you say Cock is different from any other production you have been in? It was good to get to be with people and be safe and isolated up there. I had a bunch of friends who came up from the city for about four months during the worst of the pandemic. I was able to not be that alone, considering many people were alone. I also had sort of a safe house for friends getting out of the city to avoid the dangers of that population density. It felt safe, and I had some space and freedom upstate. I think if I was stuck in an apartment in the city the whole time, it would have been more difficult. I am very lucky that I have a place upstate, so I had a place to escape. I had a gig lined up Off Broadway that was initially pushed a couple months, and yeah, it has been different. Initially, like everyone, I thought it would be temporary. How have you been coping during these days of COVID? It is the closest thing I have done since the lockdown. Cock is a hybrid of theatre and the streaming digital platform. I have been doing Zoom readings, workshops with plays, and live streaming things, which is as close to any kind of theatre that has been happening during the pandemic.
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