Synopsis

The Boys in the Band - ACTING EDITION

The Boys in the Band - ACTING EDITION $14.99

Mart Crowley

Published by Samuel French Inc

9 Male 0 Female

This dramatization of a gay birthday party with its bitterness, corrosive humor and vicious party games opened in New York in 1968 and changed the way the theatre portrays homosexuals and homosexuality

When it was recently revived at New York's WPA Theatre, critics reaffirmed its status as a powerful and superbly entertaining play

The Greenwich Village host of the party receives an odd telephone call from his old college roommate, who then follows up with an unexpected visit. Surprised to find himself in a room full of "pansies," the straight interloper is drawn into a "truth" game

The results are harrowing as the men level with each other and themselves

REVIEWS

"Witty, bitchy, revelatory and dazzlingly entertaining....The excoriating wit is still there" ~ N.Y. Post

"Humor is still on key in this poignant [and] sparkling revival of a landmark gay play.... The star of the evening is the play itself solidly built, still moving and enormously entertaining" ~ N.Y. Daily News

"This is ... a play that takes the homosexual way of life totally for granted and uses this as a valid basis for human experience.... The power of the play is the way in which it remorselessly peels away the pretensions of its characters" ~ N.Y. Times

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