TY - BOOK AU - McMahon,Phillip TI - Once before I go T2 - Modern plays SN - 9781350280069 (pbk.) : U1 - 822.9 McMA 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama N1 - Formerly CIP N2 - Told against the backdrop of Dublin's burgeoning gay rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s and the contemporary LGBTQ+ community of today, the play charts the close friendship of Lynn, Daithí, and the luminous Bernard, and sits on the exhilarating edge between comedy, tragedy, and melodrama. Exploring the fragile yet resilient bonds of Irish queer lives across four decades in Dublin, London and Paris, 'Once Before I Go' steps between the early days of the AIDS crisis and today's LGBTQ+ community, living in an era of marriage equality, gender self-determination, and untransmittable HIV ER -