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The play is set in a church meeting room in New York City’s West Village during the blackout of 1977.
A small group of gay activists have gathered to brainstorm about upcoming “zaps” – theatrical protest events designed to bring attention to acts of injustice and homophobia. But the group is in flux; some members are feeling that after the work initiated in the wake of the Stonewall riots eight years prior, the gay rights movement has achieved visibility, notoriety and a sufficient degree of acceptance that there’s little left to fight.
However, the blackout seems to occasion a tear in the fabric of time and space and the group is visited by three strangers: a man who seems to be looking for a bar that no longer exits and who seems firmly entrenched in his closet; a man who, until moments prior, had been dying in a bed in St. Vincent’s Hospital and a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Anita Bryant, whose anti-gay activity was then at its zenith.
The events of the play cause the group to re-assess itself and its goals and to begin to lay the foundation for the terrible storm they’re going to have to weather in the upcoming years.
GENRE: Drama
RUN TIME: Full-length, two acts, 2 hours
CAST: 5m/2f
SET: Single
