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Annotated by:
- Kohn, Martin
- Date of entry: Jan-28-1997
Summary
A powerful one person/one act play set in a police station in Manhattan. Addressing a cop "who would be at the other end of the table," Tom, a 36-year-old baker suffering from "survivor guilt," has been accused of killing his lover Johnny who had been dying from AIDS. Throughout the interrogation Tom offers insight into his and Johnny's lives prior to and during their relationship. His story also is permeated with attacks on an uncaring and ignorant society, especially when he mocks the interrogator's derogatory refrain, "You don't look like the kinna guy'd do somethin' like dat."
Primary Source
The Way We Live Now: American Plays and the AIDS Crisis
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Place Published
New York
Edition
1990
Editor
M. Elizabeth Osborn
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