![]() ![]() (The contrast with Andrew Holleran’s contemporaneous Dancer from the Dance is striking.) The ![]() Society, and many gay men were more focused on simply surviving than on building a family. Yes, the play is maybe a bit ahead of its time in that respect, given that it was written at a time when gay relationships themselves were generally not accepted in That issue of what a gay “family” would look like is an eternal one. In the last of the three plays, he attempts to construct something resembling a family by adopting a gay teenager, to the horror of On-again, off-again relationship with a bisexual guy named Ed. The three plays cover about five years, during which Arnold has an ![]() It’s essentially the story of Arnold, a New York drag queen, and his search for happiness. Yes, but it’s not a hardship, more like a pleasure. So you get to read them twice, once in their entirety and then again in a condensed version? The new edition of the plays (published in 2018) contains the three original plays together with Produce a more easily digestible evening of theatre, under the title Torch Song, in 2017. ![]() The latter was later adapted and shortened to It is three individual (relatively short) plays- The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery and Widows and Childrenįirst!-which were originally produced in 19, and then mounted on Broadway as a single entity called Torch Song Trilogy in 1982. ![]()
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