Alumnus and actor Jake Austin Robertson returns to Princeton with his award-winning solo show MADMAN, a reinvention of his 2015 theater thesis. In this new production, it’s 2007 and the 14-year-old Jake is secretly in love with another boy in his class. He suffers in isolation, hiding his queerness from a loving but flawed family and a conservative small town community, until he discovers a magic Russian book that leads him on an unbelievable journey to escape from himself. MADMAN is a tale where pain runs headfirst into laughter; where love is married to lies; and where absurdity is vigorously making out with reality.
Free and open to the public, advance tickets recommend. Tickets available starting Feb. 4 online at tickets.princeton.edu.
Presented by Princeton’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in collaboration with the Lewis Center for the Arts. Cosponsored by Princeton’s Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Office of Campus Life, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and LGBT Center.
