Adam and the Experts
Play Description
At the height of the AIDS crisis, Adam searches for answers, comfort, and a new place for sexuality as he witnesses the decline and inevitable loss of his beloved best friend.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
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- About the Author(s)
- About the Book
- Special Notes
Press Quotes
“Victor Bumbalo’s ADAM AND THE EXPERTS may be the most important play to deal with the AIDS crisis in gay society since William Hoffman’s AS IS and Larry Kramer’s THE NORMAL HEART sounded their anguished alarms four and a half years ago. Since those two dramas were first produced Off-Broadway, thousands have died, and thousands more who have gotten AIDS fight to survive. Mr Bumbalo’s play expresses a mood of exhaustion, fatalism and embattled determination that, as the decimation continues, has become an overshadowing fact of homosexual life. It has, at least, become possible, Mr Bumbalo’s play suggests, to find some bitter humor amid the tragedy. ADAM AND THE EXPERTS is quite funny in a dry satiric way. Most of the humor is situational, deployed by the playwright to reveal the pathetic, ludicrous defenses that people adopt to shield themselves from terrifying realities …” —Stephen Holden, The New York Times
Author(s)
Victor BumbaloVictor Bumbalo is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced worldwide and translated into five languages. He is the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Award for playwriting. His play NIAGARA FALLS followed its Off-Broadway run with subsequent openings in over fifty cities throughout the United States, England, and Australia. ADAM AND THE EXPERTS opened to critical success Off-Broadway and had numerous productions in the United States and Canada. WHAT ARE TUESDAYS LIKE? was produced throughout the United States and in Germany, Japan, England, Sweden, and Costa Rica. QUESTA premiered in Los Angeles and had productions in Chicago and New York. TELL appears in the anthology, Gay and Lesbian Plays Today, published by Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., and SHOW is included in The Best American Short Plays, published by Applause Theatre Book Publishers. Bumbalo moved to Los Angeles in 1995. Since then, he has written for several popular television series: NYPD Blue, American Gothic, Relativity, and HBO’s Spawn. He also wrote several movies of the week. He was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award both for QUESTA and NIAGARA FALLS. TWO BOYS, his short film, won the Jury Award for Best Drama at the Beverly Hills Shorts Festival, and he won Best Director at the ITN Film Festival. Bumbalo is the founder and president of the Chesley/Bumbalo Foundation, which honors LGBTQ playwrights.
Special Notes
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