Rootsky Productions Presents
The Seat Next to the King
A Play by Steven Elliott Jackson
July 19-30, 2023
Winnipeg Fringe Festival
Winnipeg, Manitoba
The Play: The time is 1964. Two men looking for sex meet in a public restroom in a Washington, DC, park. One man is white. The other man is black. One man is Walter Jenkins, friend and top aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The other man is Bayard Rustin, civil rights organizer and friend of Martin Luther King, Jr. Their homosexuality brings Walter and Bayard together and threatens everything they stand for.