The Torch Song Trilogy
Author : Harvey Fierstein
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 1981
Category :
ISBN :
Torch Song (2018)
Author : Harvey Fierstein
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2019-05
Category : Female impersonators
ISBN : 9780573708015
Book Description
In Torch Song - the two-act revival of Harvey Fierstein's award-winning Torch Song Trilogy - the life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing, Jewish drag queen living in New York City, is dramatized over the span of the late 1970s and 1980s. Told with a likable, human voice, Torch Song follows Arnold's odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child, and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect.
Safe Sex
Author : Harvey Fierstein
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573642333
Book Description
A collection containing the following three plays by Harvey Fierstein: Manny and Jake Two young men meet in a bar. Manny is literally praying for sex; Jake is only too eager to oblige. What the latter does not know is that Manny has AIDS. Safe Sex Two recently reconciled male lovers confront the challenge of their on-again, off-again relationship in the time of AIDS. Ghee, an aging, congenial gay man, may be using guidelines for safe sex as an excuse for his fading sex drive. This dismays Mead, a virile and no-nonsense blue-collar type. The emotional seesaw of their interactions creates the compelling dynamics of this fascinating short piece. On Tidy Endings A man has died of AIDS, leaving behind a son, a male lover, and an ex-wife. She still loves him and accepts the fact that he was gay, and that he died in the arms of his male lover, who selflessly cared for him right up until the end.
Casa Valentina
Author : Harvey Fierstein
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822232464
Book Description
THE STORY: Nestled in the Catskills—1962's land of dirty dancing and Borscht Belt comedy—an inconspicuous bungalow colony catered to a very special clientele: heterosexual men who delighted in dressing and acting as women. These white-collar professionals would discreetly escape their families to spend their weekends safely inhabiting their chosen female alter-egos. But given the opportunity to share their secret lives with the world, the members of this sorority had to decide whether the freedom gained by openness was worth the risk of personal ruin. Based on real events and infused with Fierstein's trademark wit, this moving, insightful, and delightfully entertaining work offers a glimpse into the lives of a group of "self-made women" as they search for acceptance and happiness in their very own Garden of Eden.
Plenty
Author : David Hare
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Conformity
ISBN : 9780573619182
Book Description
Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.
Bent
Author : Martin Sherman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781557833365
Book Description
(Applause Books). Martin Sherman's worldwide hit play Bent took London by storm in 1979 when it was first performed by the Royal Court Theatre, with Ian McKellen as Max (a character written with the actor in mind). The play itself caused an uproar. "It educated the world," Sherman explains. "People knew about how the Third Reich treated Jews and, to some extent, gypsies and political prisoners. But very little had come out about their treatment of homosexuals." Gays were arrested and interned at work camps prior to the genocide of Jews, gypsies, and handicapped, and continued to be imprisoned even after the fall of the Third Reich and liberation of the camps. The play Bent highlights the reason why - a largely ignored German law, Paragraph 175, making homosexuality a criminal offense, which Hitler reactivated and strengthened during his rise to power.
"Master Harold" -- and the Boys
Author : Athol Fugard
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573640391
Book Description
A white South African teenager's relationships with his parents and, more particularly, with two of their Black servants--Willie and Sam--have a painful, tragic outcome
Torch song trilogy, the movie
Author : Harvey Fierstein
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN :
Book Description
Gently Down The Stream
Author : Martin Sherman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350040622
Book Description
Beau, a pianist expat living in London, meets Rufus, an eccentric young lawyer, at the dawn of the internet dating revolution. After a life spent recovering from the disappointment and hurt of loving men in a world that refused to allow it, Beau is determined to keep his expectations low with Rufus. But Rufus comes from a new generation of gay men who believe happiness is as much their right as anyone else's, and what Beau assumed would be just another fling grows into one of the most surprising and defining relationships of his life. A remarkably moving, brilliantly funny love story, Gently Down the Stream is the latest play from acclaimed playwright Martin Sherman. The play reflects the triumphs and heartbreaks of the entire length of the gay rights movement, celebrating and mourning the ghosts of the men and women who led the way for equality, marriage and the right to dream. It received its world premiere at the Public Theatre, New York, on 14 March 2017 in a production starring Tony-award winner Harvey Fierstein.
As is
Author : William M. Hoffman
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 1990
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9780822200734
Book Description
THE STORY: The time is now, the place New York City. Rich, a young writer who is beginning to find success, is breaking up with his longtime lover, Saul, a professional photographer. The split is particularly difficult for Saul, who still loves Ric
