May 2025
Written by Richard Vetere
Directed by Amber Brookes
Richard Vetere’s play Black & White City Blues is the story of a young junkie struggling to survive his addiction to heroin in the decaying landscape of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the summer of 1971.
Content Warning: This play portrays violent scenes, intimate scenes, drug use & paraphernalia.
Full Synopsis: Black & White City Blues follows the journey of Little Guy. A junkie all his adult life – his younger brother John John dies from a leap off a roof top when they were both getting high, Little Guy can no longer live with the guilt. Pushed to do a deal with his middle-class supplier, Bobby, with the neighborhood drug dealer, Piranha, Little Guy puts a hit on himself as punishment. The only thing keeping him alive, and the only reason he continues to battle with his addiction, is his love for his prostitute girlfriend Delilah and his drug counselor Mister Wellman. The decaying and decadent world of 1971Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is the setting for the heroin fueled world of hallucination and despair as Little Guy struggles to survive his loneliness and his addiction.
Cast & Crew:
LITTLE GUY…Joseph Monseur
JOHN JOHN…Jake Minter/Sam Cruz*
BOBBY…Sam Cruz/Jake Minter*
PIRANHA…Riyadh Rollins
DELILAH…Amber Brookes
WELLMAN…Kevin Leonard
BURKE…Wasim Azeez
DET. LUCY CORTEZ…Anita Moreno
BERNICE…Gary Vincent
*Cast is not finalized, Jake Minter and Sam Cruz may be swapping roles.