The Culture Project has extended its limited engagement of RFK, written and performed by Jack Holmes, by three weeks. The show will now run through February 26 at 45 Bleecker.
By late summer 1964, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, still in shock and consumed with grief over the assassination of his older brother, President John F. Kennedy, was at a crossroad in his life. The presidential election was approaching and President Lyndon Johnson finally called him to the White House to end months of speculation over whether or not he would be Johnson's Vice Presidential running mate. The result of that meeting and the subsequent direction of RFK's life are the focus of RFK.
This production, directed by Larry Moss, opened off-Broadway on November 15. In his Broadway.com Review of the piece, Ron Lasko wrote: "There is a real whitewashed quality to RFK. Naturally, a narrator isn't going to admit much about himself, but so much of Holmes play has an overly romanticized, picture-perfect quality to it…. What we do get is a stellar performance from Jack Holmes, nicely directed by Larry Moss. At the end of the performance I caught, the audience leapt to its feet. This ovation is undoubtedly less for Holmes' abilities as a playwright and more for his utterly realistic performance. You really feel like you have spent 90 minutes with the actual Robert Kennedy. When the lights come up, you too will understand the meaning of tragedy a little better."
