The moonshot tape ; and, A poster of the Cosmos
Subtitle: two one act plays in monologue
By: by Lanford Wilson.
Contributors: Wilson, Lanford, 1937-
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York (440 Park Ave. South, New York 10016)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Other titles: Poster of the Cosmos.
Description: The moonshot tape: Having come home to settle her aging mother into a nursing home, Diane, now a well known short story writer, is being interviewed for her old High School newspaper. As she answers the standard line of questioning she gradually reveals more than either she or her shy High School reporter bargained for{u2013}a harrowing litany of childhood horrors that{u2019}s positively Dickensian. After years of trying to put everything behind her she{u2019}s gone home to finally finish the story. Tie things up once and for all.

A poster of the Cosmos: A powerful one person/one act play set in a police station in Manhattan. Addressing a cop "who would be at the other end of the table," Tom, a 36-year-old baker suffering from "survivor guilt," has been accused of killing his lover Johnny who had been dying from AIDS. Throughout the interrogation Tom offers insight into his and Johnny's lives prior to and during their relationship. His story also is permeated with attacks on an uncaring and ignorant society, especially when he mocks the interrogator's derogatory refrain, "You don't look like the kinna guy'd do somethin' like dat."