{"product_id":"the-barry-years-9798992283952","title":"The Barry Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cq\u003eRich in swagger, invention, mischief and heat…the crispness and bite of Barbagallo's text is, recursively, a love letter to writing itself.\u003c\/q\u003e — \u003ci\u003eTime Out NY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n \n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Barry Years\u003c\/i\u003e includes three plays from writer-director-performer Jess Barbagallo, who has shaped an entire generation of New York theater with his tender haywire wit. \u003ci\u003eMy Old Man and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e follows Barry—a forlorn Tom Waits impersonator with a water-stained floor and romance-induced insomnia—through a sequence of episodic scenes featuring emotional incompetents seeking love without compromise. An homage to small-town decay and reduced expectations, \u003ci\u003eMy Old Man and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is at once lambent with unrequited longing and crisp as the mechanics of life.\n\nBarry returns in \u003ci\u003eWeekend at Barry’s\/Lesbian Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, a pair of back-to-back episodes of television-as-theater, the second knocked-off from (knocked up by?) the first. Now a forty-something cultural worker whose career-averse lifestyle has led him to a personal and professional dead end, Barry bounces between questionable jobs and even more questionable lovers. In language that is \u003cq\u003ewinking, layered, [and] dazzling\u003c\/q\u003e (Helen Shaw, \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e), Barbagallo delivers a devastatingly precise and zany send-up of the contemporary art world that teeters on that silver highwire between despair and hilarity.\n\n\u003ci\u003eWeekend at Barry's: Greatest Hits\u003c\/i\u003e—featuring Barry but narrated by Biv, your resident narrator, dreamer, and shit-starter—is kind of like a spin-off. And also a bunch of short stories. Anyway, it asks us to \u003cq\u003ereexamine our formalities,\u003c\/q\u003e in Biv's words. \u003cq\u003eLearning to love in this way is a form of radicalism because it means that perverse love—that is the love we do against the structures that seek to organize us in brutality—is the only love.\u003c\/q\u003e\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jess Barbagallo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49057209876731,"sku":"9798992283952","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_23f12c39-57f6-451c-8c34-9b409359f376.jpg?v=1783524385","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-barry-years-9798992283952","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}