The Terrible Incomplete Journals of John D.

John D., a blurry man in mid-leap, eviscerates societies ideals with a deft barbed wit, which by turns illuminates his own foibles. This autopsy of our modern condition is conducted in counterpoint to a soundscape of live instrumental acoustic Blues music. (Howard Beye, Director)

Original play Synopsis: a duet for voice and cello
This one-man play portrays the self-destructive guilt of a man, adrift in Mexico City, who can do nothing against the exploitative consumerist forces of Western society.

“The Terrible but Incomplete Journals of John D. is a melancholy, funny, and musical look at the multifarious strains of a deception. A “regular, straight, white, fin-de-siecle kind of guy”, a woman known only as M., and a cello are the central elements of this chamber piece built around the curmudgeonly introspections of the reluctant, quasi-everyman, John D. The terrible but incomplete journals of John D. is an invitation to listen, reflect, judge and maybe, just maybe, forgive. “(Source: Rumble Theatre.)

Howard Beye
MUSIC written & performed by Jesse Quinn