Autobiography of Red

Autobiography of Ref is a one-person show adapted from Anne Carson's novel of the same name. Carson's version is a retelling of the myth of Hercule and Geryon as a modern gay romance. 

In an autobiography begun as a five-year-old boy, a young man who is also a winged red monster bares the volcanic terrain of his inner and outer worlds. In the hands of an abusive brother and an affectionate but ineffectual mother, Geryon finds solace behind the lens of his camera, and in the arms of Herakles - a cavalier drifter who abandons Geryon at the peak of his infatuation.

"MULLINS IS MORE THAN EQUAL TO THESE DEMANDS. AS HE PROGRESSES FROM IMPASSIONED LOVER TO DESIRING AND NAUSEATED EX-LOVER TO, FINALLY, BITTER BUT LIBERATED SELF-KNOWLEDGE, MULLINS IS RIVETING. IN TURN SEDUCTIVE, IRONIC, WITTY, BROKEN OR DESOLATE, HE EMBODIES FOR US CARSON'S BITTERSWEET PARADOX OF ROMANTIC LOVE."

— Theatre Notes