![]() These plays also deal with larger sociopolitical issues: racism, war, immigration, unemployment and same-sex marriage. The remaining four plays-Guillermo Reyes’s Deporting the Divas, Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet, Neal Bell’s Spatter Pattern and Jose Rivera’s Pablo and Andrew at the Altar of Words-offer depictions of the ways in which gay men have and have not assimilated in the twenty-first century. The first three works in the collection-Robert O’ Hara’s Antebellum, Joseph and David Zellnik’s Yank!, and Jon Marans’s The Temperamentals-demonstrate gay playwrights’ impulse to share the history of oppression and liberation gay men have faced. All of these plays have been successfully produced by major American theaters and all have received critical acclaim. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a collection of seven contemporary American plays (six of them by gay playwrights) that depict the lives of gay men in the years before gay liberation and in our own time. ![]()
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