"We have the stars…‪"‬

The bittersweet AIDS play, “We have the stars…”—places the two male leads, both recently deceased, in a kind of gay purgatory.  That these ‘lost souls’ transcend their earthly burdens by engaging in ‘Queenly’ (and often hilarious) repartee—the kind of banter that is as mercilessly self-condemnatory as it is all inclusive—before achieving a compassionate and distinctly humane armistice is in keeping with Bell’s thematic quest for wholeness.