BELMONT AVENUE SOCIAL CLUB
at Puszh Studios
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But as the play opens, this world is coming to an end. Women are suing to gain entrance to this exclusive club, and black politicians are beginning to form a voting bloc that can no longer be shrugged off. The ward alderman has just died, and the bosses must find someone to replace him, someone who will shoot pool with the boys, in all the senses that phrase suggests.
At first the play seems like a rip-off, an outdated, cliche-ridden play about political dinosaurs. But somewhere in the middle of the first act it becomes a scathing indictment of local politics and an incisive essay on the power of loyalties. We watch young Doug become blinded with ambition and desire, which allows him to prey on the pathetic Tommy, whose major political liability seems to be his honesty.
