need gay plays

[George67]

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

[etoile]

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

How are you defining what's a gay play?

[George67]

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)

[leomaxfrank]

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

[Ruffian]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 3:41pm

AS IS

[Ruffian]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 3:44pm

TAKE ME OUT

Gay-Themed
Baseball-Themed
LIFE-Themed

[alwy15]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 3:49pm

lisbon traviata

[Ruffian]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 3:51pm

Judas Kiss (yea Oscar Wilde) alas a tepid effort

[wildparty20]

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

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 4:01pm

Check the link
Gay Plays

[WOSQ]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 4:05pm

A Language of Our Own by Chay Yew

[Jon]

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.

[Qfan]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 4:11pm

Would boy from Oz count since the central character is a homosexual?

[Ruffian]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 4:14pm

QFan, plays only..so OZ wont count

[Jon]

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.

[Qfan]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 4:15pm

alright thanks ruffian

[Ruffian]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 4:17pm

Gawd I enjoyed BOSTON MARRIAGE

Kate Burton is...a Goddess...Mamet is a God

[Albin]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 6:21pm

Bent

Posted: 4/27/04 at 6:23pm

Ooh, ooh, ooh, can I plug my upcoming staged reading in this thread?

[HotTicket]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 6:55pm

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie had homosexual undertones

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 7:25pm

haha, most plays do if you look hard enough, especially williams' (isnt prime of miss jean brodie one of his?)

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/27/04 at 7:26pm

FIND YOUR WAY HOME (it starred Jane Alexander and Michael Moriarity)

PS--YOUR CAT IS DEAD

THE CHILDREN's HOUR

BILOXI BLUES (it has a gay sub-plot)

STREAMERS

EQUUS (don't tell me that Dr. Dysart's interest in Alan is purely clinical!)

[MusicMan]

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

Posted: 4/27/04 at 8:07pm

SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER

[Jon]

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.