HARRISON DAVID RIVERS | PLAYWRIGHT

ARTHUR
You look good, too

TODD
[Eh]
I look my age
Which
I didn’t even realize that fifty-one had a look until Julie said something the other day
I’m starting to lose my hair

ARTHUR
Really?
No

TODD
God, yes
Here
And here

ARTHUR
I wouldn’t have known

TODD
That’s kind of you to say
But when I look at myself in the mirror these days
All I see are the inches lost
My forehead is huge

ARTHUR
Your forehead is not /
Huge—

TODD
It is
It is
You could land a plane right here
In the space right above my eyebrows?
It would have to be a very small plane
But a plane none-the-less

TO LET GO AND FALL
6M

Todd and Arthur are two former ballet dancers who reunite at New York’s Lincoln Center Plaza having not seen each other for more than 25 years. This beautifully-told story takes us through the lives of both men, their choices, their regrets, and their coming to terms with age, illness and sexual identity.

Productions

Stay True Theatre Company, New York City, 2022, dir. Andrew Victor Myers

World Premiere, Theater Latte Da, Minneapolis, 2019, dir. Sherri Eden Barber

Readings/Workshops

Workshop, NEXT Festival, Theatre Latte Da, Minneapolis, 2018, dir. Peter Rothstein

Press

“In what is the best of playwright Harrison David Rivers’s recent stream of strong work, To Let Go And Fall is the masterwork and is a resplendent contribution to the AIDS play canon… Rivers has uncannily crystallized the era with utter genius. Better than Tony Kushner, frankly.”
--John Townsend, Lavender Magazine

“…a movingly understated love story about two men whose powerful connection is battered by the winds of homophobia and racism amid the surging AIDS epidemic in the '80s and '90s… Rivers has crafted an aching love story that gradually gains dimension as the men anticipate, relive, and remember a crucial turning point that could have gone differently.”
--Jay Gabler, City Pages

“…beautiful on the eyes, the ears and the heart.”
--Pamela Espeland, MinnPost

“…breathtakingly beautiful…”
--Braden Joseph, BroadwayWorld Minneapolis/St. Paul

“A truly lovely exploration of a relationship, beautifully realized by the cast, director, and every element of design, as I’ve come to expect from Theater Latte Da… a beautifully nostalgic and melancholy play. It’s all-consuming for 80 minutes and leaves one with a lovely wistful feeling.”
--Jill Schafer, Cherry and Spoon

“a beautiful, heartfelt play, a success for playwright Rivers and for Theatre Latté Da… Stunning work.”
--Arthur Dorman, Talkin’ Broadway

“…a lovely study of love and aging… well worth seeing.”
--John Olive, HowWasTheShow?