Following the smash hit success of his critically acclaimed Windrush Secret show (“‘THERE MAY BE NO PERFORMANCE RIGHT NOW ON A NEW YORK STAGE BETTER THAN HIS’ ★★★★ New York Stage Review) Rodreguez King-Dorset returns with a new solo play. It is set on a bare stage with just a stool, a walking stick, boxing gloves and a doctor’s medical bag. He plays Jake ‘Mental’ Hughes, a psychiatric patient whose voice illuminates the anger, rage, and sometimes indifference of the mental health system we have in place today.
Both whimsical and dark, his character lives in a twilight zone of bizarre realities between life in solitary and his ‘real’ Muhammad Ali persona.
The show takes us into the psyche of an individual who has endured 25 years of the painful effects of mental health and a society plagued by a lack of essential support in part due to decisions made by a few powerful ‘private’ officials, on behalf of the state.
