Untold
Decades : Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (Stonewall Inn Editions)
by Robert Patrick, William M. Hoffman,
Harvey Fierstein (Illustrator)
Seven one-act plays that trace the romantic
comedy of gay male love in America through the last seven decades.
By the author of the much acclaimed Kennedy's Children.
"So concludes a wisecracking AIDS recluse
in the last of these hilarious and heartbreaking one-act plays.
Each one covers a decade in the lives of American gay men, from
the sophisticated closets of the 1920's through our grimmest hour
in the 1980's. Patrick may see little progress toward liberation,
whether political or personal. But each decade is etched
specifically and urgently, by a master playwright. You'll shed
many a tear over this one, half of them from laughter." --
Paul Sagan (Amazon.com)
Temple
Slave by
Robert Patrick
Temple Slave tells the story of the Espresso
Buono, the archetypal alternative performance space, and the
wildly talented misfits who called it home in the 60s. The Buono
became the birthplace of underground theater and the personal and
social consciousness that would lead to Stonewall and the modern
gay and lesbian movement. Temple Slave is a page from gay history
a riotous tour de force peppered with the verbal fireworks and
insight that are the hallmark of Patrick's work.
"This is nothing less than the secret
history of the most theatrical of theaters, the most bohemian of
Americans, and the most knowing of queens Patrick writes with a
lush and witty abandon, as if this departure from the crafting of
plays has energized him. Temple Slave is also one of the best ways
to learn what it was like to be fabulous, gay, theatrical and
loved in a time at once more and less dangerous to gay life than
our own." -- Harvard Gay &
Lesbian Review
"Not Since Tales
of the City have I felt so close to such an array of wild and
not-so-wild characters, each wonderfully portrayed. Robert Patrick
writes with a thoroughly original style that draws one deeper and
deeper.... Great stuff." -- Gay
Community News UK
