New play PF opening on Broadway this fall?- Page 2

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 6/5/25 at 4:59pm

I don't think I saw it mentioned when I bought my ticket (though I could've missed it), but I'm seeing this tomorrow and in their pre-show email they mentioned they'd be utilizing Yondr pouches, FYI.  Will report back on how the show goes!

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 6/7/25 at 4:53pm

I saw this today (Prince F*ggot at Playwrights Horizons for those who still don’t know what PF is) and thought it was kind of a mess. A sometimes captivating mess, but a mess.

To folks saying the show borders on child pornography, I wouldn’t necessarily say “see the show before judging” because it’s ultimately not worth your time. The show does discuss that sort of knee jerk reaction as a bit of a jumping off point - the sexualization of children discussed in the opening monologue in comparing one of the actors’ obviously queer childhood photos to the famous photo of a young Prince George - but doesn’t really do anything with it.

The play itself I wouldn’t personally consider problematic, but the bulk of the plot concerns the Prince in his 20s, post-university, navigating his first public relationship; discovering kink and chemsex; managing (or not managing) heartbreak; and generally being a bird flapping around in his gilded cage. But what is the play saying about any of it? Nothing really. How does it connect to the performers’ repeated monologues about their unique perspectives on how their queerness/race shaped their own stories? I couldn’t tell you.

The sex is titillating, I guess. It’s as graphic and realistic as simulated onstage sex can be. There’s some light bondage and a pig mask at one point. David Greenspan has a beautiful monologue about fisting, while Rachel Crowl and N’Yomi Allure Stewart offer much-needed perspective shifting monologues of their own, but the individual moments that worked didn’t cohere into a whole for me.