ActOutLex
Home
Coming Soon
The Archives
ActOut Board of Directors
ActOut By-Laws
Defining LGBTQ Terms
Angels in America Program
ActOutLex
Home
Coming Soon
The Archives
ActOut Board of Directors
ActOut By-Laws
Defining LGBTQ Terms
Angels in America Program
More
  • Home
  • Coming Soon
  • The Archives
  • ActOut Board of Directors
  • ActOut By-Laws
  • Defining LGBTQ Terms
  • Angels in America Program

  • Home
  • Coming Soon
  • The Archives
  • ActOut Board of Directors
  • ActOut By-Laws
  • Defining LGBTQ Terms
  • Angels in America Program

the happy hour

by Stephen Currens

World Premiere

ActOut production was in May 2011 

​Directed by J. Michael McCullough

​

Cast: Bob Campbell,  Bill Chandler,  John LaMar Cole,  Paul Dick, G. Roni Garnett, Robert Parks Johnson,  Matt Kelder,  Max Reid, and Burley Thomas.

​​​​

The Happy Hour focuses on Seth, a young gay man in New York who watches friends and lovers die around him as AIDS places its frightening grip on his community.

The play recounts the lengths men went to so they could practice "safe sex" — "which later became 'safer sex,' because there really is no safe sex," Says Writer, Stephen Currens — and rumors, fears, and false feelings of safety that permeated society at the time.

​

Also, the political climate in the country was one of alienation," he said. "It was shoving people aside and putting them in a category to keep them away from the mainstream when, in fact, they were people just like everybody else. That's what the play is about.

It's about what happens to a person when he loses his friend circle, his support mechanism, and what happens when that mechanism entirely fails."

Copyright © 2025 Actoutlex - All Rights Reserved.

Powered by

Listen to Drew Barr's interview on the Arts Connection Podcast with Kate Savage.