
WOMEN AND FAGGOTS
MICHAEL BRESLIN AND PATRICK FOLEY’S This American Wife, a multicamera performance directed by Rory Pelsue, produced by Jeremy O. Harris and FourthWall Theatrical, and livestreamed this summer, stages a confrontation between the women of Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise and their pansy votaries. Breslin and Foley—Pulitzer drama finalists for Circle Jerk (2020), which also streamed live earlier this year—synthesize improv, soliloquy, and Real Housewives dialogue, quoted and lip-synched. In This American Wife, Breslin and Foley, trailed by a fleet of handheld cameras, join Jakeem Dante Powell and