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Loading... The Boys in the Band: A Play in Two Actsby Mart Crowley
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Read because I saw the play at college in about 1973. Several gay friends and lovers gather in an apartment for a birthday party in 1960s New York City. The first act leavens their inherent angst with humor. The second act is all angst and raw emotion. An outsider, ostensibly straight, propels the plot by injecting the type of hypocritical disapproval they have banded together to repel. An emotionally complex play from a different time, but it still resonates. Mart Crowley's (then) controversial play about a homosexual party and the relationships between the attendees. A little stereotyped in its archetypes, but at the time these may not have been perceived as such. At any rate this is a well-written, sad/funny look at the attachments and sadness of a group of mixed-up folks who happen to be homosexuals. no reviews | add a review
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The Boys in the Band was the first commercially successful play to reveal gay life to mainstream America. Alyson is proud to release a special 40th anniversary edtion of the play, which includes an original foreword by acclaimed writer Tony Kushner, along with previously unpublished photographs of Mart Crowley and the cast of the play, and subsequent film. No library descriptions found. |
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