Role:            Eric Faber
Where:         Bailiwick Repertory Theater
Playwright:  Robert Holman

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That was the play that I loved so much - I think it was a three act and I was in two of the three acts and the one that I liked the most was called Being Friends and it was about two guys that meet on the plains of, I don't know what they're called in England.  I want to say the Brighton plains, but I'm not sure. The English would go out and have picnics and watch the Germans come in and try to bomb England and get shot down.  And in the beginning it was a very fun thing to do and people would have picnics. I play a gay artist who's openly gay and comfortable with that, out having a picnic and this guy comes by and we start up a conversation.  And it turns out that the guy is probably gay but not really admitting it to himself. (clip) And through the course of this forty-five minutes this guy starts to actually kind of admit that he's probably gay. At the end of the play I take off my clothes and lay back and then he takes off his clothes and lays back. And then nothing happens - and the lights go down and they're just sunbathing - and it's called Being Friends.  And everybody's like shocked in amazement and it ends and then they looking at the program and it's Being Friends, and  "oh, ..they're just friends! That's funny wasn't it?"  JM.com 2007