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But once the game starts, everyone onstage gets swept up in a giddy energy. The questions quickly go from the innocuous (“What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever done?”) to the decidedly dicey (“What’s the kinkiest sex act you’ve ever taken part in?”). The fantasies evolve similarly, so that before you know it two men are naked and approximating poses found in a porno magazine. In between, they discuss such things as coming out, safe sex, and relationships.
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Dillon’s characters for the most part seem to have walked in off the street after a few drinks at Roscoe’s. Of course there are the obligatory gay types: Brian (Kellum Lewis), the dancer-singer-actor; Peter (Nic Arnzen), the squeaky-clean college boy; Andy (Sam Sakharia), the cute, dumb, but sweet boy toy; and Ray (Ted Bales), the acid-tongued musical-theater queen–who in this play also happens to be a priest. But also thrown into the pot are Kevin (Jim Brown), James (Sal Iacopelli), and Philip (Robb Williams), who seem like typical workaday queers, if such a thing is possible. Every member of the cast seems perfectly at home in his character, so that the theatrical “types” are given human hearts and the “average” characters acquire a subtle individuality.
