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| − | + | A 1994 play by [[Terrence McNally]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love!_Valour!_Compassion!] | |
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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. | 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. | ||
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| + | 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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| + | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
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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]]. | 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]]. | ||
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love!_Valour!_Compassion! | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love!_Valour!_Compassion! | ||
| − | National Arts Festival programme, 1996. | + | [[National Arts Festival]] programme, 1996. |
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| + | Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]] | ||
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Revision as of 09:11, 15 July 2014
A 1994 play by Terrence McNally. [1]
Contents
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.
Translations and adaptations
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.
Go to ESAT Bibliography
Return to
Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays
Return to PLAYS III: Collections
Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances
Return to South African Festivals and Competitions
Return to The ESAT Entries
Return to Main Page
