{"product_id":"once-before-i-go-phillip-mcmahon-9781350280069","title":"Once Before I Go","description":"You can paint your placards ‘til the cows come home, but until you have marched through this town in five inch heels and fishnets, you will never know what it is to truly be a faggot on the front line.\nTold against the backdrop of Dublin’s burgeoning gay rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s and the contemporary LGBTQ+ community of today, Once Before I Go charts the close friendship of Lynn, Daithí, and the luminous Bernard, and sits on the exhilarating edge between comedy, tragedy and melodrama.\nExploring the fragile yet resilient bonds of Irish queer lives across three decades in Dublin, London and Paris, the play 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.\nAt once political, joyous and heart-breaking, Once Before I Go honours the fabulous people we lost along the way, and celebrates those who fight on.\nThis edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Dublin’s Gate Theatre in October 2021.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51227802239264,"sku":"9781350280069","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781350280069.jpg?v=1781477619","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/once-before-i-go-phillip-mcmahon-9781350280069","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}