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The Homing Pigeon: A New American Family Drama
Paperback
Series: The Theatrical Plays and Screenplays of Robert Jerome Pagan
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 8 2026
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every family has a story they never tell.
For the Collins family, that story has been waiting in the backyard for more than forty years.
Every August, they gather around the same grill. The burgers are cooked the same way. The neighbors stop by through the side gate. The jokes are familiar. The routines are practiced. Everything appears exactly as it always has.
Until Sebastian arrives with the man he loves.
The secret isn't that Sebastian is gay.
Everyone already knows.
The secret is that no one has ever been willing to say it aloud.
As an ordinary family barbecue slowly unravels, decades of inherited silence begin to surface, forcing three generations to confront a wound that has shaped their lives for nearly half a century. What emerges is not a story about politics or ideology, but about fear, family, memory, and the extraordinary cost of protecting the people we love from the truth.
Funny, intimate, and quietly devastating, The Homing Pigeon is a contemporary American play about the emotional architecture of families and the conversations that define them long after everyone has stopped speaking.
Written to be experienced both on the page and on the stage, this literary edition is ideal for readers of contemporary drama, actors, directors, educators, and anyone who has ever wondered how silence becomes inheritance.
From the Author
The Homing Pigeon is not a play about coming out. It is a play about what happens when trauma becomes tradition, and how love can sometimes mistake silence for protection.
- Robert Jerome Pagan
Perfect For Readers Of
- Contemporary American Drama
- Literary Theatre
- Family Drama
- LGBTQ+ Literature
- Acting & Performance Studies
- Modern Play Scripts
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