Description: Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles, John accepts an invitation to a private island from an admirer of his work. There, he joins Paul, his imposing host in his late thirties, his beautiful mistress, and his precocious teenage son. Browsing Paul's library and conversing together on the deck about literature and film during the spell of evening's "blue hour," John feels surcease, until, with unabashed candor, Paul shares intimate details of his life. Through cunning seductive charm, he married and divorced an ambassador's daughter and the heiress to a vast fortune. Avoiding identifying his son's mother, he reveals an affinity for erotic "dangerous games." With intimations of past decadence and menace, an abandoned island nearby arouses tense fascination over the group. As "games" veer toward violence, secrets surface in startling twists and turns. Explosive confrontation becomes inevitable.
Brief description:
Graham Halstead is an American actor and voice artist living and working in Paris, France. His voice work includes animation, commercials, and AudioFile Earphones and Audie Award-winning audiobook narration. His work in the theater includes performances in New York, regionally in Washington, DC, and internationally in Edinburgh and London. His most recent television work can be seen on AMC and Netflix.
Review Quotes:
"Rechy's art has always been about power in various incarnations: the power of class and race, of the body and the intellectual...His language remains lapidary and hypnotic, never fading in its own control."
-- "Los Angeles Times"