I'm Not Rappaport at Pico Playhouse

I'm Not Rappaport (1985) is set in New York's Central Park, where Midge, an African American man and Nat, a Jewish man, both elderly, meet and slowly develop a friendship. Midge has been a custodian in his building for many, many years and may face the prospect of soon losing his job. Nat, an old-school leftist who manipulates people by changing identities and affiliations as casually as most people change their clothes, decides to do something about it, despite Midge's reservations. They're not alone in the park. There's a lovely young artist, Laurie, whom the men befriend. There's Gilley, a kid with a knife running a protection racket. And there's a far more dangerous character, The Cowboy, the drug connection to whom Laurie is deeply in debt and who plans to do Laurie great bodily harm if she can't pay her bill. When Nat and Midge attempt to intercede on Laurie's behalf, they are placing themselves in deadly danger. Can Nat and Midge, so very different, ever really become close friends? Who is Nat, really? (Who he says he is keeps changing.) Will Midge be evicted? Will Laurie, Nat and Midge get themselves killed?