MILITANT MONDAYS
a series of political talks
each Monday night in August
”The TEMPERAMENTALS”
MONDAY, AUGUST
3rd LARRY KRAMER, BILL C. DAVIS
TALK BACK WITH PLAYWRIGHT &
DIRECTOR
The hit show “The Temperamentals” by Jon Marans begins Militant
Mondays, a series of talk backs following the performance. The first will be
this Monday, August 3rd with the playwright Larry Kramer, Bill C Davis & Jon
Marans. It will be moderated by Jonathan Silverstein. "The Temperamentals" is
Off Broadway at the TBG Theater, 312 West 36 Street 3rd Floor, NYC. MAN underdog
and Daryl Roth are presenting the new American play. Thomas Jay Ryan plays Harry
Hay and Michael Urie (TV’s “Ugly Betty”) is Rudi Gernreich, with Tom Beckett,
Matthew Schneck, and Sam Breslin Wright completing the cast. The acclaimed play
is directed by Jonathan Silverstein.
2hrs & 15 mins Including
intermission
Larry Kramer is a playwright, author, public health advocate
and LGBT rights activist. He wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award
nominated Women in Love. His controversial novel Faggots, earned him
denunciations from the gay community for his portrayal of shallow, promiscuous
gay relationships in the 1970s; and became one of the best-selling novels about
gay life.
Witnessing the spread of the disease that became known as
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), he co-founded the Gay Men's Health
Crisis (GMHC), which has become the worlds largest private organization to
assist people living with AIDS. Not content with the social services GMHC
provided, Kramer expressed his frustration by writing the hit play “The Normal
Heart.” His activism extended to the founding of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash
Power (ACT UP), that was a direct action protest organization widely credited
with having changed public health policy and public perception of people living
with AIDS (PWAs) as well as awareness of HIV and AIDS diseases. He has been a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his play “The Destiny of Me,” and has been a
two-time recipient of the Obie Award. Bill C. Davis is the author of “Mass
Appeal,” about a young firebrand priest trying to shake up the church. It
premiered at The Manhattan Theatre Club and then moved to Broadway starring Milo
O'Shea and Eric Roberts. It subsequently has played around the world. Mr. Davis
adapted the play as a screenplay that starred Jack Lemmon and Charles Durning
and was chosen one of the ten best films for that year by The National Board of
Review. Other plays include, “Dancing in the End-Zone,” directed by Jose Ferrer
and starred Elaine Stritch and later moved to Broadway starring Pat Carroll. His
play, “Wrestlers,” had its premiere in Los Angeles, with Mr. Davis acting in it
opposite Mark Harmon. Other produced plays are “Spine”, and “Avow.” Bill C. also
writes political essays for the online magazine Commondreams.org.
"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 United States pre Stonewall.
The play weaves together the personal and political to tell a relatively unknown
chapter in gay history. It explores the love between two complex men, as their
impossible dream of forming such an unheard of organization becomes a reality in
this perilous, unpredictable world. It is an intimate portrayal of the men who
created history and the epic struggles they overcame. The characters consist of
the actual men who founded the Mattachine Society (Harry Hay, Rudi Gernreich,
Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull, and Dale Jennings), as well as other prominent figures
of the time.
www.thetemperamentals.com
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