cover photo by David Levinson
"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
Originally produced by 3-Dollar Bill Theater in New York
5 M, 2 F
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