American Coffee
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Play Description
A working-class couple plots to drug their gay son and his lover to keep them from attending their daughter's wedding.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
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Press Quotes
“Rich comic cadences … Bumbalo is a funny guy.” —Marilyn Stasio, New York Post
“Funny … Lively … Bumbalo demonstrates a healthy satiric wit, aimed at both straights and gays, and a lively sense of comic dialogue.” —Bernard Weiner, San Francisco Chronicle
“NIAGARA FALLS dares to tread in delicate areas … Bumbalo scores some sharp character comedy … the play’s overall treatment of a situation and a rejected social class who receive little ‘gay’ treatment is most welcomed.” —Nicholas de Jongh, The Guardian (London)
“Funny and incisive.” —Rob Baker, Daily News
“Bumbalo must have secretly taped parents across the country. He outdoes Neil Simon … It is a finely written work.” —John Kerr, Bay Area Reporter
“A maximum of both humor and pathos … I could have cheered.” —James M Saslow, The Advocate
“There is a basic humanity here that one finds in very few plays.” —Michael Bronski, Gay Community News
“NIAGARA FALLS is a tender, canny, and frequently hilarious comedy.” —Alan Stern, The Boston Phoenix
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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