The Dying Gaul And Other Screenplays

Synopsis

And Other Screenplays

Craig Lucas is a premier American dramatist and now a major film director.

These are his scripts forThe Dying Gaul,The Secret Lives of Dentists, andLongtime Companion—whichThe New York Timescalled “the truest fictional screen chronicle of the advent of AIDS.”

Commentary by Lucas and luminaries such as Mary-Louise Parker and Alan Rudolph provide further insight into Lucas’s work.

Craig Lucaswrote both plays and screenplays forRecklessandPrelude to a Kiss

He has won the award for excellence in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels mid-career achievement award, and the Sundance Audience Award.

Themes

• AIDS (Disease)
• AIDS (Disease)--Drama
• Bisexual men
• Bisexual men--Drama
• Dentists
• Dentists--United States--Drama
• Homosexuality--Drama
• Homosexuality
• Marital conflict
• Marital conflict--Drama
• Married people
• Married people--United States--Drama
• Motion picture industry
• Motion picture industry--United States--Drama
• Motion picture plays, American
• PS3562.U233 A6 2008
• Screenwriters
• Screenwriters--United States--Drama
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--United States--Drama