![]() ![]() Matt (Chris Perfetti) is working at a tacky wine bar, looking to sell his sick dad’s newly valuable season tickets to the Cavaliers to get out of a debt to Shawn (Glenn Davis), who’s just come into a bit of money after selling a short story. The play, nominally, is about LeBron James, and it kicks off in Cleveland in 2004 when LeBron was a breakout rookie. It’s a hangout drama about the unspoken dynamics of hanging out. Luckily for me, Rajiv Joseph, in King James, is exploring similar questions, examining one close friendship with a sharp eye and genial warmth. ![]() Maybe that preoccupation comes from the still-climbing-out-of-a-pandemic feeling of reestablishing regular ways to spend time with people, or maybe it’s egged on by panicky articles about how Americans don’t spend as much time with friends anymore, or maybe I’ve just run into that classic problem of realizing it’s harder to make friends when you’re an adult and everyone has a job. I have been thinking a lot recently about the logistics of friendship - what it takes to bring two people together and get them over the mysterious barrier separating acquaintanceship from an actual bond. Glenn Davis and Chris Perfetti in King James, at City Center. ![]()
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