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1) Bent
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A play about the persecution of homosexuals in Germany. Moving from a Berlin flat in 1934 to Hitler's camps, it discusses the horror of European history.
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In the single setting of a prison cell and its outside corridor, four young men, prisoners, and a middle-aged guard live out the Christmas season in an atmosphere of anger, violence and desire. Two characters, Queenie and Mona, are openly homosexual and the other two prisoners, Rocky and Smitty, fight to preserve their masculinity within a system that encourages homosexuality by its very nature. The guard, called Holy-Face by the prisoners, detests...
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Lovesick brings together an international collection of plays, from Britain, the US, Germany, France and Russia, depicting types of "homosexual" or same-sex love. Most of these six fin-de-siecle plays are either previously unpublished in English or at all. Each comes enhanced with an editorial introduction and contextual documentation, including contemporary reviews, case histories and illustrations. Making available a legacy of homosexual dramas...
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