What was secretly done behind closed doors, cuddled up on a ratty upholstered La-Z-Boy in front of a vintage television set, watching the latest of his dad’s XXX porno tapes on the DVD, surrounded by wads of tissues while his parents were not around, Andrew Goffman is now performing live, in front of a voyeuristic audience Friday and Saturday nights through March 6th at The Players Theatre at 115 MacDougal Street in the heart of Greenwich Village.
Make that upstairs at The Players Theatre. Two flights of stairs get you into the inner sanctum of Mr. Goffman’s fantasy world of porno, his sex life and his marriage in this audacious one man candid confessional – The Accidental Pervert.
It is a bold, honest, unique, taboo-breaking, laugh filled evening of Mr. Goffman exposing his private inner porno life after discovering, at the age of eleven, his dad’s secret stash of sex tapes hidden in the back of the closet – with such names as “Chitty Chitty Gang Bang” “Little Oral Annie” and Saturday Night Beaver” which gave him a tainted view of women until he met his wife and fathered a daughter.
With a disarming smile and a sly glint in his eye he takes us on his journey of self discovery where a steady diet of porn left him hungry for the real thing – which he is proud to admit that he quickly fulfilled. He also gives a lively demonstration on how he learned to masturbate without using his hands.
He is brave, irreverent and kind in his storytelling. If he had been a Boy Scout his merit badge on the way to becoming Eagle would be “expert in porno tapes”.
Mr. Goffman has been ably directed by Charles Messina who keeps the action moving in the small space with the many changes of shirts, lights, sound cues, props and projections. One of which is pointed right out at the audience from within his boxer shorts.
It seems it takes a village to pull off this one man show. With the many people behind the scenes involved. What could have become pathetic and sleazy emerges as a truly honest coming of age story of this accidental pervert. The ultimate profile in courage.
Tickets $30.00 www.TheAccidentalPervert.com
