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VICTOR BUMBALO (1946 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Victor Bumbalo, born Utica NY 30 Nov 1946, was a graduate of Bennington College obtaining his BA in Theatrical Studies.He has written for various television programmes including "NYPD Blues". He was the team leader for the New York City Gay Mens Health Crisis Center. In 2004 he took his vows as a Zen Dharma Teacher and is now known as the Reverend Straddha Karuna.
Plays by Victor Bumbalo
Adam And The Experts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 3-Dollar Bill Theater, NY | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881450873 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5290 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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| "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. . .." | |||||
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After Eleven | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1983 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120359 | |||
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Synopsis: | examination of a gay couple trying to sustain their relationship during the throes of a midlife crisis | |||||
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Kitchen Duty | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78486 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A relationship falls apart because one partner is "too gay" | |||||
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Niagra Falls | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New York: Calamus, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881453652 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47246 | |||
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Genre: | comic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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| the gay son is the ghostly hero | |||||
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Questa | ||
| 1st Produced: | Court Theater in Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881452808 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58973 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Whilst cruising for sex in a back alley, Paul kills a young man. He rushes to his sister's appartment covered 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. | |||||
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Show | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater at 224 Waverly, NYC | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Tough Acts To Follow, Alamo Square, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0962475160 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28028 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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| Father Michael has been sent to an asylum - he buys sexual favours from Joey a young orderly. | |||||
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Tell | ||
| 1st Produced: | Circle Repertory, NYC | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Gay & Lesbian Plays Today Heinemann (US) , 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0435086183 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46323 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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| A hospital room. The patient with AIDS has a male visitor - who has probably been his lover. As the patient in unable now to have a sex life the visitor tells him in detail about a young man he picked up. Unfortunately evey time the story gets interesting the nurse comes in on some pretext or other. A week later the nurse has noticed that the visitor has not been coming in - he has had to go away for a week.The nurse starts to tell an erotic story of the time when she was a teenager and was seduced by a young farm hand. | |||||
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What Are Tuesdays Like? | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Jones, Therese (Ed.), Sharing The Delirium: Second Generation Aids Plays And Performances" Heinemann, London, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881454185 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5291 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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| A group of people in a waiting room at a hospital | |||||
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