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IRL + CYBERTANK: Love Alone: Elegies for Rog


  • The Tank 312 W 36th St New York, NY, 10018 United States (map)

Love Alone: Elegies for Rog

December 3 at 3:00pm, December 4 and 5 at 7:00pm

Livestreaming tickets available for December 4 and 5

​A true story of love persevering in the face of calamity.

In 1986, poet Paul Monette lost Roger Horwitz, his partner of 12 years, to AIDS. In the five months that followed, Monette wrote an exquisite cycle of poems that traces an epic journey from grief back to the land of living, full of rage, humor, and a love that transcends death.

Actor Jonah Scott Mendelsohn brings these poems to the stage in a solo show that gives voice to a lost generation of gay men, teaching the courage with which they faced the epidemic and injustice of their time, as we continue to face them in our own.

adapted and performed by Jonah Scott Mendelsohn
from the poetry of Paul Monette
directed by Floyd Rumohr
with Hisa Viscovich and Juan Guajardo

rehearsal coach, Ben Mehl

set designed by Peter Harrison
lighting designed by Josh Martinez-Davis
sound and projections designed by Zaire Baptiste
production stage manager, Ali Walensky
Assistant Stage Manager, Andrea Nagua

*All attendees and artists will be required to display proof of at least 2 doses of a Covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks while indoors at all times.

Earlier Event: December 1
Flight Delay