Drama, General & Miscellaneous Drama, Gay & Lesbian Studies
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Overview
- Drama
- Full Length
- 5 men: 5 total
- Flexible Set
THE STORY: "Temperamental" was code for "homosexual" in the early 1950s, part of a created language of secret words that gay men used to communicate. THE TEMPERAMENTALS tells the story of two men—the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich—as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States.
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“Old-school theatrical storytelling meets gay liberation history in Marans’ off-Broadway play, based with emotional veracity, campy humor and provocative sexiness on the lives of the Mattachine pioneers who founded the first gay-rights organization in pre-Stonewall America. Not every play translates well to the printed page, but Temperamentals–code for homosexual in the 1950s, it seems–reads like a good short story.”The New York Times
“Gay activism didn’t start with the Stonewall riots of 1969, a fact made abundantly clear in the informative and evocative play The Temperamentals by Jon Marans.... The Temperamentals succeeds at conveying an era when only a few brave men dared announce their sexual identity before a society that vilified them... Intellectual, emotional and sexual.”Book Details
Published
July 28, 2010
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Pages
75
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780822224419