David's Friend
w/ Smoke, Lillies & Jade
- On the Big Screen & At Home
Friday October 22nd 2021, 9:15 pm
Streaming: October 22nd - October 24th
Film Details
Runtime: 59 Minutes
Language: English
Director: Adrienne Truscott
Country: USA, 2020
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Gay, Musical
IN PERSON & VIRTUAL
Written and performed by Nora Burns (comedian and founder of comedy troupe The Nellie Olesons), this fast-paced one-woman show is a multi-media powerful and sensory-driven performance bringing to life a time in her past when she and her best friend, David, experienced the wild and crazy times of the New York gay scene together. In recreating the times, places and experiences, Burns has made sure the show has stuck to looking back at an important time in her life and what about it resonates today….and that is a lot.
PRECEDED BY SHORT FILM:
SMOKE, LILIES AND JADE
Directors: Deondray Gossfield and Quincy LeNear Gossfield, 28 minutes, USA, 2021
Alex, a young artist of the Harlem Renaissance, flirts with the idea of bisexuality through posturing and conversations he has with his girlfriend, Melva, and his Bohemian mentor, Raymond. Then he meets Beauty, a Latin man who pursues Alex with poetry and fire, and the fun turns to earnest. The music of a concert performance breaks the floodgates of Alex's desires, and he finds himself torn between Melva and Beauty. Which one will he choose? Based on a short story by Robert Bruce Nugent, shockingly penned in 1926, with narration by Billy Porter, Smoke, Lilies and Jade is a beauty to behold.
Written and performed by Nora Burns (comedian and founder of comedy troupe The Nellie Olesons), this fast-paced one-woman show is a multi-media powerful and sensory-driven performance bringing to life a time in her past when she and her best friend, David, experienced the wild and crazy times of the New York gay scene together. In recreating the times, places and experiences, Burns has made sure the show has stuck to looking back at an important time in her life and what about it resonates today….and that is a lot.
PRECEDED BY SHORT FILM:
SMOKE, LILIES AND JADE
Directors: Deondray Gossfield and Quincy LeNear Gossfield, 28 minutes, USA, 2021
Alex, a young artist of the Harlem Renaissance, flirts with the idea of bisexuality through posturing and conversations he has with his girlfriend, Melva, and his Bohemian mentor, Raymond. Then he meets Beauty, a Latin man who pursues Alex with poetry and fire, and the fun turns to earnest. The music of a concert performance breaks the floodgates of Alex's desires, and he finds himself torn between Melva and Beauty. Which one will he choose? Based on a short story by Robert Bruce Nugent, shockingly penned in 1926, with narration by Billy Porter, Smoke, Lilies and Jade is a beauty to behold.
