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.
Performance history in South Africa
In South Africa a Market Theatre Company production was directed by Janice Honeyman in 1984, starring Judy Page, Danny Keogh, Wilson Dunster, Ruphin Coudyzer, Dorothy-Ann Gould, Arnold Vosloo, Andrew Worsdale, and Annabel Linder. Designs by Anthony Farmer, music directed and performed by John Oakley Smith, lighting design by Mannie Manim. This production moved to the Baxter Theatre, featuring Jean Dell, Danny Keogh, Wilson Dunster, Adrienne Pearce, Arnold Vosloo, Andrew Worsdale, Brenda Wood.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_Song_Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy theatre programme, 1984.
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987.
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