Moonlight Serenade /
Collection Number: 7777
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
Library
Title:
Moonlight serenade /
Collection Number:
7777
Creator:
Press
Quantity:
1 volume.
Forms of Material:
Printed material
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Typescript fair copy of a play about AIDS and incest in an
Italian American family.
Language:
Collection material in English
Toni Press-Coffman (born 1949) is a regional playwright and actor who now lives in
Tucson. She has received grants and awards from organizations including the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the California Council for
the Arts. Her 2003 play "Touch" was produced around the United States, including an
off-Broadway run at the Women's Project Theater in New York.
Typescript fair copy of a play about AIDS and incest in an Italian American
family.
This is the unpublished and unperformed original version of Moonlight Serenade as
presented by the author at a private writers group in 1986 in Palo Alto, California,
where she was living at the time. In the story, three generations of a working-class
Italian-American family come together for a holiday reunion. A grandson who lives in
San Francisco misses the gathering because he is hospitalized with AIDS. The women
in the family discuss his situation and his relationship with his male partner,
making the two men unseen but vivid characters in the drama. Also central to the
drama is one of the granddaughters revealing that her father had sexually abused her
as a child.
Names:
Press, Toni.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease)
Incest
Italian Americans
Form and Genre Terms:
Plays
Cite As:
Moonlight serenade / #7777. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
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