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Plays and Poetry of Gay Interest
Plot / Content: "To say The Boys in the Band is a play about homosexuals is wrong. It is a homosexual play, and as such is the first to accept homosexuality as an ordinary fact of life, and then go on to explore the hates, doubts and agonies of love between men. "The setting is a birthday party for Harold. As his friends gather to celebrate, their fears and failures are brought boiling to the surface to make a final situation that cannot be resolved - only lived with and endured." (from the cover) Background / Biography: Mart Crowley (born 21 August 1935) is an American playwright. The Boys in the Band, which was filmed in 1969, directed by William Friedkin, with the original Broadway cast, is his most famous play. It achieved considerable fame as one of the earliest plays to focus on homosexuals, but it was also strongly criticised by gay activists as giving a misleading, stereotyped image of homosexual men as self-pitying and flamboyant. Wikipedia biography Reviews: "The power of the play is the way in which it remorselessly peels away the pretensions of its characters and reveals a pessimism so uncompromising in its honesty that it becomes in itself an affirmation of life." The New York Times (from the cover) Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"LARRY: Happy birthday, Harold. MICHAEL [to HAROLD]: You're stoned and you're late! You were supposed to arrive at this location at approximately eight-thirty dash nine o'clock! HAROLD: What I am, Michael, is a thirty-two-year-old ugly, pock-marked Jew fairy - and if it takes me a while to pull myself together and if I smoke a little grass before I can get up the nerve to show this face to the world, it's nobody's goddam but my own. [Instant switch to chatty tone] And how are you this evening?" from Act Two Secondhand booksellers |
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