Covenant

by York Walker

Two years after his sudden disappearance, struggling guitarist Johnny “Honeycomb” James returns to his small town a blues star, sparking rumors that he may have made a deal with the devil to attain his musical genius. Inspired by the myth of Robert Johnson, this haunting, Gothic play explores the power of belief and tests the thin veil between rumor and truth.

Genres: Plays

96 pages, Paperback

Published December 16, 2024

Reviews

[Cosette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like English, I've been thinking about this play since I saw it in Oct. 2024. It's beautiful and haunting

[ollie · Rating 5 out of 5]

chills :0

[Miranda Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing play. And it reads so well of the page.

[Elizabeth Dunn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Published 2024–Gothic play set in a small town in 1936. A blues musician is suspected of making a deal with the devil because of his skill with the guitar. His pull with a local young woman puts him at odds with the matriarch of her family. The family members at the center of this drama are observant Christians but also firmly believe in the power of the devil in their lives. Leaves us wondering what is real in the world of the play and what is in the imagination of one or the other of the characters.

[Olivia]

Can we please stop with gay romance being a twist at the end I don’t care and it wasn’t that well done and I didn’t like this as a Robert Johnson retelling either —- why are we ignoring all the most interesting parts of that story for the boring ones? Well done with the creeping sense of dread though, I definitely felt it.

[Chloë Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars. Just astonished well done and gay and excellent at deploying and withholding information and carefully crafted and made me cry and made me laugh. I feel so grateful to live and be alive and be gay and black and from the South at the same as this show. I love this show. And that is all

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

I saw this play last month at Goodman and was absolutely obsessed with it! I wanted to read the script immediately after watching it but I read it all today while on trains and buses to and from Chicago. I would love to see this on stage again!

[alyssa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hey so this is probably the best play I’ve ever read…………

[Shane · Rating 4 out of 5]

can’t wait to reread and dissect this

[Kayla Sessoms · Rating 5 out of 5]

❤️❤️❤️❤️