Overview
Character Name
Prior Walter / The Man in the Park
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Lead
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
New York City, Elsewhere, 1985-1986
Analysis
Prior is a former drag queen and an open and proud member of the LGBTQ+ community in New York. Shortly before the play's beginning, Prior discovers a Kaposi’s Sarcoma (“the wine dark kiss of the angel of death”) and learns that his AIDS prognosis is not good. Louis, his
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