Adam And The Experts

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 Bumbalos ADAM AND THE EXPERTS may be the most important play to deal with the AIDS crisis in gay society since William Hoffmans AS IS and Larry Kramers 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 Bumbalos 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 Bumbalos 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