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Forbidden Acts - Pioneering Gay & Lesbian Plays of the 20th Century (Paperback, New)
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Forbidden Acts - Pioneering Gay & Lesbian Plays of the 20th Century (Paperback, New)
Series: Applause Books
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(Applause Books). Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is proud to
announce the publication of the first collected anthology of gay
and lesbian plays from the entire span of the twentieth century,
sure to find wide acceptance by general readers and to be studied
on campuses around the world. Among the ten plays, three are
completely out of print. Included are The God of Venegeance (1918)
by Sholom Ash, the first play to introduce lesbian characters to an
English-language audience; Lillian Hellman's classic The Children's
Hour (1933), initially banned in London and passed over for the
Pulitzer Prize because of its subject matter; and Oscar Wilde
(1938) by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, a major award-winning success
that starred Robert Morley. More recent plays include Mart
Crowley's The Boys in the Band (1968), the first hit "out" gay play
that was the most realistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gays on
stage up to that time; Martin Sherman's Bent (1978), which daringly
focused on the love between two Nazi concentration camp inmates and
starred Richard Gere; William Hoffman's As Is (1985), which was one
of the first plays to deal with the AIDS crisis and earned three
Tony Award nominations; and Terrence McNally's Love Valour
Compassion (1994), which starred Nathan Lane and won the Tony Award
for Best Play. The other plays are Edouard Bourdet's The Captive
(1926), Ruth and Augustus Goetz's The Immoralist (1954) and Frank
Marcus' The Killing of Sister George (1967). Forbidden Acts
includes a broad range of theatrical genres: drama, tragedy,
romance, comedy and farce. They remain vibrant and relevant today
as a testament of art's ability to persevere in the face of
oppression.
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