THEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Harvey Fierstein, Tony Kushner, Roy Cohn

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Louis" long-time partner prior is dying of aids. Belize is prior"s nurse who is a black ex-drag queen. A gay fantasia on national themes: part one: millennium approaches (1993, part two: perestroika (1994) Examines aids and homosexuality during the 1980s. Dreams and hallucinations are a big part of the story. Roy cohn, mccarthyist era lawyer, is the connector of all the main characters in the play. He is dying of aids but will not come out: he has hallucinations of the ghost of ethel rosenberg, whom he had executed during the communist scare. Explores the persecution of homosexuals in nazi germany and how they must wear the pink triangle as a means of identification. The play helped shed light on the nazi persecution of gays during that period, which wasn"t well known until now. Three-part play about arnold beckhoff, a jewish homosexual, drag queen and torch singer play goes from late 1970s to early 1980s.

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