The premier production of Vancouver's gay professional theatre Out West Performance Society was a collective of short plays called Plague of the Gorgeous & Other Plays that played to sold-out audiences in the summer of 1995. Set in the context of HIV and AIDS, Plague of the Gorgeous & Other Plays (Scirocco Drama, 1996) included contributions by playwrights Gordon Armstrong, Stuart Blackley & Kevin Gregg, Lisa Lowe, Peter Eliot Weiss and Georgia Straight theatre critic Colin Thomas. [BCBW 2003] "Theatre"