A Gay Masseur's Guide to Happy Endings

[DunwoodyGuy]

Has anyone seen this solo show that debuted off-off Broadway and in Provincetown and is currently enjoying a sold-out run in a small theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival? It's described thusly:

One gay masseur. One job gone wrong. A funny, unsettling solo show about sex, power, and mistaking being wanted for being alive.

A candid solo show about sex, intimacy, and what happens when being wanted quietly becomes a form of identity.

The play unfolds over the course of a single outcall: one late-night job that takes AJ, a struggling actor and gay masseur, from New York City to a wealthy home in Greenwich, Connecticut. As the night progresses, what should be a routine massage becomes the frame through which an entire life is examined.

Rather than sensationalizing sex work, the play treats it as labor: emotional, physical, and psychological. Queer male sexuality is examined not as spectacle or scandal, but as language, survival strategy, and currency. The tension of the night in Greenwich builds not around what happens, but around why AJ stays — and what it costs him not to leave.

A Gay Masseur's Guide to Happy Endings

Edited Thursday at 05:49 PM by DunwoodyGuy

[Lewis H]

I remember the masseur. I can't remember his name but I do recall he didn't get great reviews on the forum.