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Drama Afloat in Red Hook: The Wind and the Rain
A play about Sunny’s Bar and the world it embodies.
I’m here now, at my desk, but there’s also an I that’s still on the barge that houses Red Hook’s Waterfront Museum, where The Wind and the Rain is performed; another I is sitting in the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 2011, watching a play called Mission Drift that Sarah Gancher created with the TEAM. As you walk down Conover Street, toward the water and the Waterfront Museum, you pass the real Sunny’s — a brick building, an unassuming green awning, a rusty neon BAR sign, and an even rustier pickup permanently parked out front. It’s chilling to watch Simpson curl up a table, all his easygoing radiance drained away, while Tullock’s Tone staggers around in the dark, trying to muck out the bar, call someone, anyone, for a generator, deal with horrible relatives from Jersey who want them to sell, and take care of a baby.
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