Side Man

About this book

Lauded by Peter Marks of The New York Times as "powerfully unsettlingan enormously moving play " Side Man is the comic and tender story of Clifford a young man who looks back on his family life; prior to leaving home Clifford reconciles the role that he has long played as parent to his parents. Smoothly gliding between present and past the play tells the story of a time before the Beatles and Elvis when jazzmen were heroic like ballplayers and there was no shortage of Saturday-night gigs. Side Man is both a tribute to the men whose lives were their music and a sober look at a family drama left in the wake of that passion.