Writting

The Birdcage

Summary

Characters

Armand Goldman

Albert

Senator Kevin Keeley

Louise Keeley, senator’s wife

Val Goldman, Armand’s son

Barbara Keeley, senator’s daughter

Katherine Archer, Val’s mother

Plot (Story)

Armand Goldman owns a popular drag nightclub in 

South Miami Beach. His long-time lover Albert stars 

there as Starina. "Their" son Val comes home to 

announce his engagement to Barbara Keely, daughter

 of Kevin Keely, US Senator, and vice president of the Committee for Moral Order. The Senator and family descend upon South Beach to meet Val and his father and "mother..." and what ensues is comic chaos. They call all the boy's mother for the day of the marriage proposal, but when she can’t arrives because to the traffic Albert presents transvestite as the mother of Val. The tangles eventually end when the mother is present and the farce is discovered. Then the press comes around the house and the gay club of the couple in order to photograph the senator in a compromising situation and solve the problem dressing him like a drag queen and get out of inadvertently.

Conclusion (Message to the audience)

The message is that the senator accepted  other ideas about sex and society. The moral is so closed by the beliefs we bring life teaches you to be more open and accepting people who never imagined.