Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Adam Rapp tackles love in ‘Red Light Winter’
Inspired by the question, Rapp wrote “Red Light Winter” at his usual feverish pace, completing a draft within weeks of what would become his most commercially successful play to date. Like his breakthrough dramas “Blackbird” and “Nocturne,” which both ran off-Broadway, “Red Light Winter” mines the shadows of human connectedness. Two college buddies in their 20s on a trip to Amsterdam share encounters with the same prostitute, creating a bizarre, emotionally charged love triangle.
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A: It was a departure. I always avoided the big emotional themes because I figured our greatest writers had already covered them so well and I wanted to be new and original. But once I decided to give it a try, it quickly wrote itself. I started thinking about this experience I’d had in Amsterdam with a friend. He had recently gone through a breakup and I was trying to encourage him to reconnect with the world, and I had this i …