AUTOCRAT by Cody Sullivan

After a critically-acclaimed run in June, Provincetown playwright Cody Sullivan returns with AUTOCRAT at Provincetown Theater this September. AUTOCRAT marks a departure from Sullivan’s beloved Provincetown-focused productions, including Town Meeting, The Dune Inn, and See Monsters, and interrogates larger political concerns, such as police overreach and abuse of power. In AUTOCRAT, Cody Sullivan uses his 34-year-old gay body to inhabit the members of the Leclerc family, a French-Canadian-descended, lower-middle-class family living in South Central Massachusetts. What is the torture for this family in Massachusetts? And why is it centered around an old bottle of Autocrat Coffee Syrup? See the play that critics called “the flavor of the times” (Provincetown Independent), a show that “crackles with electricity” and “is in short, brilliant” (Provincetown Magazine).