The (Abridged) BRONXVILLE TRILOGY, or Marriages of Inconvenience.
by William Ivor Fowkes
FULL-LENGTH PLAY (2 HOURS, 50 MINUTES). This play condenses all three plays that constitute THE BRONXVILLE TRILOGY into one full-length play. It presents the stories of three married couples in Bronxville, NY, an affluent suburb of New York City in Westchester County. All three husbands are closeted gay men whose wives don’t know the truth of their situation. The play spans 30 years of sweeping social changes...
FULL-LENGTH PLAY (2 HOURS, 50 MINUTES). This play condenses all three plays that constitute THE BRONXVILLE TRILOGY into one full-length play. It presents the stories of three married couples in Bronxville, NY, an affluent suburb of New York City in Westchester County. All three husbands are closeted gay men whose wives don’t know the truth of their situation. The play spans 30 years of sweeping social changes for gay people.
Graham Walker and Dan Carlsen, two best friends and lovers since college, struggle with their desire to be together in a world where marriage to women is the unquestioned norm, and the AIDS epidemic makes living out of the closet a frightening option. Their solution is to marry women, start families, and live as next-door neighbors while continuing their relationship in private. This strategy works surprisingly well—until Dan dies in a plane crash. Meanwhile, neighbor Chip Miller secretly acts out in increasingly dangerous ways, ultimately almost dying after being attacked at a gay sex club. In the aftermath of their divorces, newly newly-out Graham and Chip embark on a relationship made all the more challenging by their very different histories and conflicting approaches to navigating their new gay lives.
A few vignettes sprinkled throughout the play depict other couples in similar circumstances, but different times.
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