Full length, drama / 9 m / interior--P. [4] of cover.

Thirty years after the characters in The Boys in the Band gathered in Michael's Manhattan duplex to celebrate Harold's birthday six of the survivors are assembled again in the same apartment for another occasion: a Celebration of Life for one of the original boys who has died. This funny acerbic and tender sequel does not toe any politically correct line. Rather it is full of debates about and criticisms of the post-liberation world allowing these men to realize how much they have changed and how much further they have to go.

Comedy

Characters: 4 male 3 female

This two-act comedic collision seems at first like a straightforward romp about marital grumblings. But there are all sorts of surprising complexities in the failed marriage of Kit the WASP flame-haired rich girl and Manny the wry wise-cracking Jewish TV composer which has produced two precocious sassy children and a situation in which the ex-wife and the ex-husband can't seem to live with each other or without each other.

'Avec Schmaltz' (a phrase European musicians would ironically use to instruct violinists how to emotionally heat-up their romantic string passages) is about this devoted divorced couple their new partners and their two glib offspring at holiday time. It moves from a Currier and Ives winter wonderland of Christmas Eve in Connecticut to a New Year's Eve in sun-drenched Beverly Hills California. It concerns the ex-marital couple their lovers and would-be-lovers entering and exiting in a farcical light-hearted but dead-serious comedy in two acts.

There is no facile resolution to the question of will-they-or-won't-they? get back together. Rather there is the emotional vitality of people clinging to what relational lifeboats they are tossed in the buoyant excursion called life!

Drama

Characters: 5 males 3 females

In the heat of a blazing summer three physically and spiritually exhausted Americans: Tom a famous tennis pro; Dinah his beautiful cosmopolitan not-yet divorced lover; and their mutual pal Michael a gay writer (first introduced in The Boys in the Band) try to get away from it all by visiting Dinah's enormously wealthy retired friends - the older imperious Irene and her terminally ill husband Ray - at their fabulous cliff-side villa on an island in the Mediterranean.But it turns out to be far from the perfect restorative holiday they were so desperately seeking. This odyssey has not brought them or their hosts anywhere near the paradise they were seeking but rather to an inferno where a painful purgatorial breakthrough occurs releasing them all and providing true escape from this distant and deceptively idyllic haven.

Remote Asylum is a play which observes the classical unities of time place and action which remorselessly exposes a group of bruised souls - wanderers all and forces them to deal with their fears of loneliness and mortality to open past emotional wounds not yet healed. The event is one of forceful dynamic transfiguration; the conversation is intelligent and adult both witty and grave best described as a kind of orchestrated tone poem.

A screenwriter in Rome to shoot a movie on location meets an American priest who is in the city to attend a religious conference. He invites the priest to join him for a drink in his suite at the Hassler Hotel without revealing that he recognizes the man as the teacher who molested him years ago. The dark past and its consequences slowly emerge in this spellbinding drama by the author of The Boys in the Band and The Men from the Boys.