Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally

So, as you can probably tell, I have been reading a lot of LGBT themed plays lately. One of the big reasons is because I am looking for one to produce and direct next year at state. And I believe I have chosen the one i'm going to do and that one is the play from my previous posting "Jeffrey" by Paul Rudnick.

My most recent play that I have read is "Love! Valour! Compassion!" by Terrence McNally. This play is about a group of friends, all gay, who decide to stay in a lake cabin during the three summer holidays. This play is all about there lives up at this cabin, and betrayals that occur, and love that forms between other members of the group. During the course of the show, while all of the personal lives of the characters are being made or falling a part they are putting together a dance routine for a benefit. This play has every type of gay man and does a really good job of portraying the gay community. Shows that we are no different then the straight community and that we go through the same problems and issues and that we too go through all of the same range of emotions that everybody else does.

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