After being hired as a part-time ice cream manufacturer, James enters the most hostile work environment of his professional career; a workplace play about self-suppression, masculinity, and failed ambition.
James, an art student with an aversion to athletics, is hired as a part-time ice cream manufacturer at Greenwood Farms for the summer. After meeting his jaded, conspiracy-theorizing boss, Matt, what James believed to be a wholesome, family-owned enterprise turns out to be the most hostile workplace of his professional career. In an environment that establishes the use of slurs, discriminatory and sexual language as commonplace, James is confronted with another part of himself — the code-switching, shame, and isolation ingrained in his manhood. James’s otherness is apparent, drawing the attention of Matt, whose monotonous 9-to-5 appears to be rotting him from the inside. As James becomes more comfortable, Matt becomes more curious, pursuing James in a cycle of predation that seems all too common among the management at Greenwood. A criticism of heteronormative masculinity, Ice Cream also examines the intricate and turbulent nature of work relationships, ambition, and self-suppression, specifically in relation to queer men.
After being hired as a part-time ice cream manufacturer, James enters the most hostile work environment of his professional career; a workplace play about self-suppression, masculinity, and failed ambition.
James, an art student with an aversion to athletics, is hired as a part-time ice cream manufacturer at Greenwood Farms for the summer. After meeting his jaded, conspiracy-theorizing boss, Matt, what James believed to be a wholesome, family-owned enterprise turns out to be the most hostile workplace of his professional career. In an environment that establishes the use of slurs, discriminatory and sexual language as commonplace, James is confronted with another part of himself — the code-switching, shame, and isolation ingrained in his manhood. James’s otherness is apparent, drawing the attention of Matt, whose monotonous 9-to-5 appears to be rotting him from the inside. As James becomes more comfortable, Matt becomes more curious, pursuing James in a cycle of predation that seems all too common among the management at Greenwood. A criticism of heteronormative masculinity, Ice Cream also examines the intricate and turbulent nature of work relationships, ambition, and self-suppression, specifically in relation to queer men.
Duration
1 hour 40 minutes with NO intermission
SUITABLE AGES
14+
Tickets are $20 each or 2 for $30. This $10 discount applies at checkout!
The Calderwood Pavilion contains the Wimberly Theatre, the Roberts Studio Theatre, the Carol G. Deane Hall, and the Nicholas Martin Hall. You should navigate to the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA if you are seeing a show in any of those aforementioned spaces.
