Torch Song Trilogy

Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by American actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein (1954-*) rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970 and 1980s.

In South Africa a Market Theatre Company production was directed by Janice Honeyman in 1984, performed at the Baxter Theatre, featuring Jean Dell, Danny Keogh, Wilson Dunster, Adrienne Pearce, Arnold Vosloo, Andrew Worsdale, Brenda Wood.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_Song_Trilogy

Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987.

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