Love! Valour! Compassion!
A 1994 play by Terrence McNally. [1]
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The original text
The setting is at a lakeside summer vacation house where eight gay friends spend the three major holiday weekends of one summer together. The house belongs to Gregory, a successful Broadway choreographer now approaching middle age, who fears he is losing his creativity; and his twenty-something lover, Bobby, a legal assistant who's blind. Each of the guests at their house is connected to Gregory’s work in one way or another. Infidelity, flirtations, soul-searching, AIDS, truth-telling and skinny-dipping mix monumental questions about life and death with a wacky dress rehearsal for Swan Lake performed in drag.
Its off-Broadway première took place at the Manhattan Theatre Club on October 11, 1994, in a staging by Joe Mantello.
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Performance history in South Africa
Presented by PACT Drama at the National Arts Festival, directed by Mark Graham, starring Drummond Marais, Greg Melvill-Smith, Blaise Koch, Philip Godawa, Russel Savadier, Kenneth Robinson, James van Helsdingen. Designer James McNamara, Lighting designer Tersia du Plessis, Production manager Jacques Mulder, Choreographer Christopher Kindo.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love!_Valour!_Compassion!
National Arts Festival programme, 1996.
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