Hard Plays Stiff Parts: The Homoerotic Plays of Robert Chesley
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0962475114 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 157 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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'It is our lives that Chesley takes as his subject, our pain that he articulates, our pride that he makes palpable, our joy that he crystallizes, our guilt that he exorcises, our devestation that he makes us face all over again.' --David Stein, GMSMA Newslink
Brilliant! Brilliant gay lit. By turns, hard-hitting, hardcore, humorous, and filled with human pathos. The play, "Jerker" was one of the first full length AIDS plays and provoked quite a stir due to its frank sexuality when it was read on public radio. "Night Sweat" is a hilariously satiric take-off on a Robert Louis Stevenson story about a suicide club for bored young men, only in this case, men dying of AIDS. "Dog Plays", written as the author himself was dying of AIDS, is a heart-breaker. I loved t