Travels with a Masked Man at Gloucester Stage

Description

Written and performed by John Hadden John Hadden performs his two-character, one man play about deception, “the game” (espionage) and rough filial love. Based on his book Conversations with a Masked Man: My Father, the CIA, and Me. Haunted by unanswered questions about his childhood overseas, a man confronts his father, an ex-CIA chief who ruminates darkly on the American Empire, the human animal, and himself. Alternately horrifying, hilarious, and poignant, their verbal contest covers Cold War material from Vietnam to the Middle East and the Bomb, from abstract art to James Bond films––but the real conversation, the subtext, is about what they mean to each other.