Soho Playhouse
presents

LAST OF THE KNOTTS

Written by Doug Knott
Directed by Darren Lee Cole
Scenic Artist: Gilbert Johnquest

Featuring: Dough Knott

Press Representative: Heller Highwater

Soho Playhouse
15 Vandam Street
April 25 – May 31, 2014 - Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm
212-691-1555, www.sohoplayhouse.com

An aging hippie recounts his life in an open, and at times alarming, fashion. His thoughts of creating his own family are fraught with anxiety and anger, fueled by a desire to defy his abusive father’s wish to carry on the family name. As the last of the Knotts, he plans to keep it that way.

His childhood is agonizing. His father, an alcoholic court judge, he likens to meeting at the corner of mean street and booze. Knott believes his father’s displaced anger toward his mother makes him the target for abuse. His mother, who has accepted her situation, urges her son to forgo family and to leave their pathetic, small town. He heeds the advice and breaks free – boarding school, hitchhiking across the country, drugs, women and bars. “Who the hell was I, skittering through life like a waterbug?”
Eventually he becomes entwined with a beautiful woman, who tells him she cannot have children. It’s bad enough that he has to share her with her pet boa constrictor, which he is forced to feed live baby chickens. When she breaks his bubble and announces she’s pregnant, they wrestle with an existential decision. “It was like a reed poking up in our sea of honey.”

THE LAST OF THE KNOTTS, a one-man show, is well written. Doug Knott delivers a poker face performance portraying his characters, at times, à la Garrison Keillor.

- Gloria Talamas -