A SINGLE MAN

Classically trained British actor Alex Jennings effortlessly captures the urbane tones, cutting intelligence, and stoic wit of a gay English-born English professor dealing with the loss of his longtime partner. It's the early 1960s, and seismic change is in the air at the professor's suburban California college--from the Cuban missile crisis to his students discovering sex and drugs. Jennings' delivery is at its best accentuating the frank and precise descriptions and language of a man clinging to a daily routine of teaching, going to the gym, and having dinner with friends, only to wrestle against his British reserve to search for some solace by cruising the bar scene. Unsparing and intimate, Jennings gives voice to this 1964 groundbreaking masterpiece of contemporary LGBTQ+ literature. [Published: JANUARY 2026]