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. "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

Adam And The Experts

Literature & Fiction

Bumbalo, Victor

Dramas & Plays

Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated

The play follows a group of strangers in the waiting room of an AIDS clinic over the course of several months. "WHAT ARE TUESDAYS LIKE? is a small epic set entirely in the waiting room of a New York AIDS clinic. In scenes long and short, Victor Bumbalo follows a handful of human beings - male and female, white and black, gay and straight - over the course of a deadly year. Nobody has shown more strongly how adversity can drive good people apart and how courage and heart are needed to bring them back together. Bumbalo's drama is tough yet tender, lean yet spacious, as clear as water yet heartbreakingly powerful. It is a miraculous play." -Christopher Bram, author of Gods and Monsters and Exiles in America "Many AIDS plays written in the darkest days of the epidemic captured the pathos and anger aroused by lives cut short against a backdrop of bigotry and indifference. But few writers managed as gracefully as Victor Bumbalo to combine pathos with a bracing jolt of comedy. His characters rage and weep but never allow the disease to conquer their spirits, or their ability to laugh at themselves and the world. WHAT ARE TUESDAYS LIKE? is a tender, funny, altogether gorgeous piece of work." -Joe Keenan, Emmy Award-winning writer of Frasier and author of Blue Heaven and My Lucky Star

What Are Tuesdays Like?

Niagara Falls and Other Plays

Calamus Books

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