Inspired by E. M. Forster's novel Howards End, and set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, �The Inheritance� wrestles with what it means to be a gay man today, exploring relationships and connections across age and social class and asking what one generation's responsibilities may be to the next. Matthew Lopez's �The Inheritance� premiered ... Weiterlesen

Scottee (ed.): The Oberon Book of Queer Monologues

UK 2018, 199 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Oberon

The first collection of its kind, �The Oberon Book of Queer Monologues� chronicles over one hundred years of queer and trans performance. Combining classical and contemporary stage plays with spoken word and performance art, this anthology features over forty extracts from some of the most exciting stage works in the English-speaking world. It will be an essential tool for artists ... Weiterlesen

Brian Merriman: 10 HISstories

Stage Stories Through Decriminalisation Ireland 25th Anniversary. Ireland 2018, 138 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Eigenverlag

�10 HISstories� is a book of ten Irish gay-themed short story plays from the founder of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Playwright, Brian Merriman turns real life stories into contemporary short plays, inspired by people affected by the criminalisation finally erased from the Irish Statute books in 1993. Ireland of the 1980s wasn't a pleasant place to live for ... Weiterlesen

Mike Bartlett: Cock

UK/USA/AUS 2017, 112 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury

When John takes a break from his boyfriend, his accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out. Mike Bartlett's metrosexual play about love and longing provides us with questions of who we are and who we want to be. John's refusal to fix his identity ... Weiterlesen

Mark Gatiss (ed.): Queers.

Eight Monologues. UK 2017, 85 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
BBC

A young soldier returning from the trenches of the WWI recollects a love that dare not speak its name. Almost one hundred years later, a groom-to-be prepares for his gay wedding. �Queers.� celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight individuals. Poignant and personal, funny, tragic and ... Weiterlesen

Jordan Seavey: Homos, or Everyone in America

UK 2017, 193 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Samuel French

�Love is love� - but is navigating it any less complicated today? What does it mean to be in a committed relationship? Is monogamy just monotony? Told through interweaving glimpses into the life of an everyday couple unexpectedly confronted by a vicious crime, �Homos, or Everyone in America� is a fearless, funny, heart-on-its-sleeve examination of the moments that can bring ... Weiterlesen

Claudio Macor: The Tailor-Made Man

A Play. UK 2017, 111 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Oberon

William �Billy� Haines was a popular silent screen MGM movie star who was fired by Louis B. Mayer because he was gay and refused to give up his lifelong partner, Jimmie Shields, and to marry the silent screen vamp Pola Negri. As punishment, his films were removed from release and sealed in the MGM vaults never to be seen again, ... Weiterlesen

Paula Vogel: Indecent

A New Play. USA 2017, 77 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Theatre Communications Group

When Sholem Asch wrote �God of Vengeance� in 1907, he didn't imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play's subject matter wasn't deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of a lesbian affair between two women. Paula Vogel's ... Weiterlesen

Brian Merriman: Eirebrushed

A one act play. Ireland 2016, 102 pp., brochure, € 10.00
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

There are 4 equal players aged from 20s up to 50s at the director's discretion. The actors, dressed in stylised black costume, are all in normal conversation throughout and will evolve into their heroic characters. There are direct quotes within the play, they are original text from the writings of the historical character and are a bridge between their time ... Weiterlesen

Larry Kramer: The Normal Heart

UK 2021 (Reprint), 79 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Nick Hern

Larry Kramer's drama is a polemical, argumentative, witty and contentious play about the political and emotional consequences of the AIDS crisis. It is set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. It follows the efforts of one man, while his friends are dying around him, to break through a conspiracy of silence, indifference and hostility from ... Weiterlesen

Alan Bennett: The Habit of Art

A Play. USA 2010, 88 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, �Death in Venice�, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first in twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, among others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett's new play is ... Weiterlesen

Terrence McNally: Some Men and Deuce

Two Plays. USA 2009, 180 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

The four-time Tony Award-winning author of such classics as �Love! Valour! Compassion!� returns with two plays about friendship, companionship, and love. In �Some Men�, the author takes us on a multigenerational journey of gay life in America. In interwoven vignettes, McNally uses the same characters at different points in their lives as gay men to address such issues as coming ... Weiterlesen

Peter Shaffer: Equus

UK 2005, 112 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, �Equus� is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Tolins: The Last Sunday in June and Other Plays

USA 2004, 301 pp., brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Jonathan Tolin's plays have been called �smart, timely, and very funny� and �haunting play(s) of ideas crucial to the way we live�. In �The Last Sunday in June� we follow the struggles of Michael and Tom as they contemplate their move from Greenwich Village to the suburbs. With the Gay Pride Day parade happening on the streets below their apartment, ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays

Ed. by Frank Romany and Robert Lindsey. UK 2003, 702 pp., brochure, € 12.90
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK

Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in �The Jew of Malta�, and the humiliation of gay Edward II in his fall from power and influence, Marlowe explores the shifting balance between power and helplessness, the sacred and ... Weiterlesen

Martin Sherman: Plays, Vol. 1

UK 2003, 247 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.

Martin Sherman's work confounds any simplistic expectations: as a gay man, he has created some of the most fully-realised and compelling gay characters in theatre history, yet he also writes effective straight characters. A Jew, he deplores an Israeli murder of a Palestinian. A man, he writes of women with breathtaking empathy. Sherman dramatises the �other�, those whose religion, gender, ... Weiterlesen

Mart Crowley: The Band Plays

USA 2003, 249 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

In 1968 the most famous play ever written about homosexuality, �The Boys in the Band�, made its stage debut, turning playwright Mart Crowley into an instant legend. More than three decades later, the characters from �The Boys in the Band� took the stage again in �The Men from the Boys�. In this sequel, Crowley's infamous circle of gay friends (minus ... Weiterlesen

Tony Kushner: Homebody / Kabul

USA 2002, 153 pp., brochure, € 12.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Written before 9/11/01 and set in Kabul, with something approaching divine prescience, this play examines current-day Afghanistan, its history, its long-tortured relationship with the West and its complex political and humanitarian crisis. In the play, Kushner wrestles with his own complicated attitudes about a land whose destiny has been shaped by superpowers with agendas. The Kabul we see here is ... Weiterlesen

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