George Haas

Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. Meanwhile, David is gay and virginal; Ian's business partner, Keaton, is unhappy that his sister Jane is pregnant with no plans to tell the father; Lisa is everybody's pal and no one's lover; John, stuck in adolescence, is always on the make. He brings German-born stunner, Carla, and promptly loses her affection to Hans, a fast-talking ski instructor. David meets Manny: they have chess in common. Soon, surprises abound as relationships take new turns.

In Romance, an airline steward caught up in the extremes of a gay lifestyle he can no longer control falls in love, as best he can, with a lonely, overweight woman. Haas’s most ambitious production, it was conceived with downtown poet Peter Smith and boasts a sizable cameo appearance by writer Edmund White, co-author of The Joy of Gay Sex.