Bøker av Victor Bumbalo

The play follows a group of strangers in the waiting room of an AIDS clinic over the course of several months. "WHAT ARE TUESDAYS LIKE? is a small epic set entirely in the waiting room of a New York AIDS clinic. In scenes long and short, Victor Bumbalo follows a handful of human beings - male and female, white and black, gay and straight - over the course of a deadly year. Nobody has shown more strongly how adversity can drive good people apart and how courage and heart are needed to bring them back together. Bumbalo's drama is tough yet tender, lean yet spacious, as clear as water yet heartbreakingly powerful. It is a miraculous play." -Christopher Bram, author of Gods and Monsters and Exiles in America "Many AIDS plays written in the darkest days of the epidemic captured the pathos and anger aroused by lives cut short against a backdrop of bigotry and indifference. But few writers managed as gracefully as Victor Bumbalo to combine pathos with a bracing jolt of comedy. His characters rage and weep but never allow the disease to conquer their spirits, or their ability to laugh at themselves and the world. WHAT ARE TUESDAYS LIKE? is a tender, funny, altogether gorgeous piece of work." -Joe Keenan, Emmy Award-winning writer of Frasier and author of Blue Heaven and My Lucky Star

NIAGARA FALLS consists of two interrelated one-acts: AMERICAN COFFEE and THE SHANGRI-LA MOTOR INN. AMERICAN COFFEE: A working-class couple plots to drug their gay son and his lover to keep them from attending their daughter's wedding. THE SHANGRI-LA MOTOR INN: The newlyweds are ensconced in the Shangri-La Motor Inn for their wedding night. While the groom is anticipating the evening ahead, the bride is discussing the annulment of her not-yet-consummated marriage with the gay motel clerk. "Rich comic cadences ... Bumbalo is a funny guy." -Marilyn Stasio, New York Post "Funny ... Lively ... Bumbalo demonstrates a healthy satiric wit, aimed at both straights and gays, and a lively sense of comic dialogue." -Bernard Weiner, San Francisco Chronicle "NIAGARA FALLS dares to tread in delicate areas ... Bumbalo scores some sharp character comedy ... the play's overall treatment of a situation and a rejected social class who receive little 'gay' treatment is most welcomed." -Nicholas de Jongh, The Guardian (London) "Funny and incisive." -Rob Baker, Daily News "Bumbalo must have secretly taped parents across the country. He outdoes Neil Simon ... It is a finely written work." -John Kerr, Bay Area Reporter "A maximum of both humor and pathos ... I could have cheered." -James M Saslow, The Advocate "There is a basic humanity here that one finds in very few plays." -Michael Bronski, Gay Community News "NIAGARA FALLS is a tender, canny, and frequently hilarious comedy." -Alan Stern, The Boston Phoenix

While cruising for sex in a back alley, Paul kills a young man. He rushes to his sister's apartment drenched in blood, and she helps him cover up his crime. Her husband, Nicholas, is not pleased to see Paul as Paul was dating his best friend, Kevin, who has died of an AIDS related illness. Lori the mother of the murdered young man goes to her priest for comfort. It turns out she is having an affair with him. "QUESTA is a mystery play and a wonder. It has the excitement of a taut, packed thriller; it explores guilt, suffering and redemption with real depth. The talents of Victor Bumbalo - the comic charm, the moral courage, the range of characters - are in perfect accord." -Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, New York Times and author of On Michael Jackson "Noteworthy talent abounds in Victor Bumbalo's poetic morality play." -Los Angeles Times "Intense and emotionally riveting. A well-written and gripping play!" -Cynthia Citron, K A B C (radio) "Riveting! Fascinating! Mesmerizing! ... Victor Bumbalo's vivid script ... QUESTA has a life of its own that will most definitely linger long after this run is completed." -Sarika Chawla, IN Magazine "Remarkable! Strong! Victor Bumbalo's dialogue is on the mark." -Jonas Schwartz, theatremania.com "Praise goes to Bumbalo's script for neither over or under doing anything and providing strong characterizations for all seven characters." -Tolucan Times

At the height of the AIDS crisis, Adam searches for answers, comfort, and a new place for sexuality as he witnesses the decline and inevitable loss of his beloved best friend."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