Torch Song Trilogy
From: Wednesday, 30th May 2012
To: Sunday, 12 August 2012
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Synopsis
Torch Song Trilogy is three interconnected plays on gay life and relationships. The plays focus on the one thing that all people have in common, gay or straight...relationships. Arnold is searching for that elusive perfect love, and in him and the other characters we see our own relationships with our families, lovers and ex-lovers. Although most of the characters are gay, what we understand at the end is that sexuality is unimportant, and we are all simply human.
Our Review:
13 June 2012
The outrageous, hysterical and irresistible off-Broadway performance of Harvey Fierstein in his own quasi-autobiographical Torch Song Trilogy was one of the great New York theatre events of the early 1980s. I stood up and ovated at the end, like everyone else.
It’s still quite something to have an impassioned, unruly stage soap about a drag queen called Arnold Beckoff trawling the back rooms of low dives, falling in love with a bisexual teacher, losing a young boyfriend in a queer bashing assault and settling down in Manhattan with plans to adopt a teenage delinquent.
Despite the best efforts of David Bedella as Arnold, who plays down the monstrosity while attending to the grace notes, the show, cut by an hour in Douglas Hodge’s nearly three-hour production (as it was when Antony Sher led the West End première in 1985), is still too baggy and flabby without Fierstein; and the big joke of a gay fantasia subsiding i...
Latest User Review
Ian Scott - 16 July 2012:
I thoroughly enjoyed the matinee performance yesterday. The acting was excellent, choreography, especially in the 'weekend away' scene very clever ( and acrobatic!) Still thought provoking and very moving even after 30 years. Congratulations to ALL the cast for a memorable afternoon....
Cast
David Bedella (Arnold Beckoff)
Sara Kestelman (Mrs Beckoff)
Joe McFadden (Ed Reiss)
Tom Harries (Alan)
Perry Millward (David)
Laura Pyper (Laurel)
Creative
Harvey Fierstein (Author)
Menier Chocolate Factory (Producer)
Douglas Hodge (Director)
Soutra Gilmour (Design)
Paul Anderson (Lighting)
Gareth Owen (Sound)
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