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#1

need gay plays

Posted: 4/27/04 at 3:31pm

I am compling a list of gay plays so far I have:
JEFFREY
TORCH SONG TRILOGY
LOVE, VALOR, COMPASSION
THE BOYS IN THE BAND
THE MOST FABULOUS STORY EVER TOLD
THE SUM OF US
SAFE SEX
vAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM (ET ALL BY CHARLES BUSCH)
tHE NORMAL HEART
THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME

Please add to this list any I've missed, NOTE: I am looking for plays not musicals.
Thanks
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#2

re: need gay plays

Posted: 4/27/04 at 3:35pm

How are you defining what's a gay play?
Rest in peace, Iflitifloat.
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Posted: 4/27/04 at 3:36pm

all or most of the characters are gay and/or the over all theme touches on gay lives (see the list I have so far, as a guide)
webmaster for www.JohnBarrowman.com (the official site)
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Posted: 4/27/04 at 3:38pm

Angels in America!!!
Six Degress of Seperation

maybe 6 degrees isn't really a gay play..
interesting way to categorize
But I won't live alone in a house of regret.
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Posted: 4/27/04 at 3:53pm

There is a book of smaller lesser known gay plays edited by John Clum. It's called "Asking & Telling" I enjoyed most of the plays, although not all... the titles are

Party - David Dillon
Dancing in the Mirror - John M. Clum
Deporting the Divas - Guillermo Reyes
Somewhere in the Pacific - Neal Bell
Clocks & Whistles - Samuel Adamson
Rescue and Recovery - Steve Murray
From the evil she done Lord Set her free, Set her free, Set me free Don't let my sorrow Make evil of me
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Posted: 4/27/04 at 4:08pm

THE RITZ by McNally - one of the funniest (and most politically incorrect)plays ever!


THE STAIRCASE by Charles Dyer - check out the movie with Rex Harrison and Richard Burton as an aging gay couple.
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Posted: 4/27/04 at 4:11pm

Would boy from Oz count since the central character is a homosexual?
"Look on the Bright Side Not on the Blackside get off your backside shine those shoes! This is your golden opportunity: Your the lightning and the news!" -Assassins
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Posted: 4/27/04 at 4:14pm

Some lesbian plays:

BOSTON MARRIAGE by David Mamet - dealing with a 19th Century lesbian couple.

Two plays based on the same true muder case:

MY SISTER IN THIS HOUSE by Wendy Kesselman
and THE MAIDS by Jean Genet - the story of two sisters who had an incestuous lesbian relationship, and brutally murdered their wealthy employer and her daughter.
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Posted: 4/27/04 at 8:04pm


Not really a gay play, but TEA AND SYMPATHY deals with issues of manhood and masculinity.

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE is an adaptation by Jay Presson Allen from the novel by Muriel Spark and has little, if anything, to do with homosexuality.

Other gay-related plays:
AS IS
THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE
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Posted: 4/27/04 at 11:14pm

DEATHTRAP has two gay men as the principal characters (Oops - I spoiled the big surprise!)

Lanford Wilson's THE FIFTH OF JULY has a gay couple among the main characters.

Also by Lanford Wilson, the wonderful one-character, one-act play, THE MADNESS OF LADY BRIGHT, about a transvestite.

And, Wilson's HOT L BALTIMORE had a lesbian character.

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