This book collects plays written by Steven Key Meyers. His 1994 take on Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year was a dramatic response to the AIDS epidemic.. The one-man play Chesterfield to His Son, adapting that forbidding nobleman's famous Letters, is an antic-and painfully accurate-dissection of a father's love for his son. Dr. Knox and Mr. Banner examines same-sex desire in 19th-century London and the stories people tell themselves about what makes them who they are.
More characters tell themselves more stories in five one-act plays set in locales ranging from Seward, Alaska to the sidewalks of New York's West 23rd Street: The Old Agitator continues his lifelong mission, but with modified idealism; a new arrival in Alaska does what she must in order to stay; a grandmother exiled to a suburban lawn examines her life and finds inspiration; a man explores the temptation offered by a random encounter, and a casual philanderer finally meets a reckoning.
