Adapted from Robert Chesley’s homoerotic play, the story follows two men whose phone sex encounters gradually evolve into something deeper. When Bert falls ill and can no longer answer, J.R. is left with only silence and fading hope.
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Jerker is a powerful, intimate adaptation of Robert Chesley’s play about two gay men forming a relationship through telephone sex during the early AIDS crisis. Hugh Harrison preserves the theatrical structure, and the simplicity gives the dialogue, fear and growing tenderness unusual force.
Adapted from Robert Chesley’s homoerotic play, the story follows two men whose phone sex encounters gradually evolve into something deeper. When Bert falls ill and can no longer answer, J.R. is left with only silence and fading hope.
Jerker is a powerful, intimate adaptation of Robert Chesley’s play about two gay men forming a relationship through telephone sex during the early AIDS crisis. Hugh Harrison preserves the theatrical structure, and the simplicity gives the dialogue, fear and growing tenderness unusual force.
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