Holding the Man by Tommy Murphy (English) Paperback Book

Description: Holding the Man by Tommy Murphy, Timothy Conigrave The remarkable true-life love story, adapted from Timothy Conigraves memoir of growing up gay in 1970s Melbourne. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Based on the award-winning memoir by Timothy Conigrave, and adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy Murphy, Holding the Man tells a remarkable true-life love story that speaks across generations, sexualities and cultures.The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you are secretly gay in an all-male school in 1970s Melbourne with a crush on the captain of the football team.Against the odds, Tim and John develop a relationship that, for fifteen years, survives everything life throws at it – the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love cant solve turns up to part them.Tommy Murphys play Holding the Man was first performed in Sydney, Australia, in 2006. It had its UK premiere at the Trafalgar Studios in the West End in 2010.Tommy Murphy is a bewitching playwright of startling originality - Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, Artistic Directors of Sydney Theatre Company Author Biography Tommy Murphy is an Australian playwright best known for his stage and screen adaptations of Timothy Conigraves memoir Holding the Man, which won numerous awards including Best Play at the New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards, an award he also won for Strangers in Between.Timothy Conigrave (19 November 1959 – 18 October 1994) was an Australian actor, writer, and activist. His major work, the autobiographical Holding the Man (1995), is the story of his 15-year love affair with John Caleo. They met as students at Xavier College in Melbourne; Caleo was captain of the football team and Conigrave wanted to be an actor. Conigrave finished the book shortly before dying of an AIDS-related illness. The book was published by Penguin Books in Australia in February 1995, and also in Spain and North America. It won the 1995 United Nations Award for Non-Fiction. Review Fresh, frank and funny... a wrenchingly moving love story I defy anyone with a pulse not to relate to * Evening Standard *Compelling, wrenching… unflinching, devastating, moving and funny * Sydney Morning Herald * Review Quote "fresh, frank and funny... a wrenchingly moving love story I defy anyone with a pulse not to relate to"-London Evening Standard "Compelling, wrenching... unflinching, devastating, moving and funny"-Sydney Morning Herald "Tommy Murphy is a bewitching playwright of startling originality"-Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, Artistic Directors of Sydney Theatre Company Details ISBN1848421087 Year 2010 ISBN-10 1848421087 ISBN-13 9781848421080 Format Paperback Publisher Nick Hern Books Media Book Short Title HOLDING THE MAN Language English Author Timothy Conigrave UK Release Date 2010-04-22 Imprint Nick Hern Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2010-04-22 NZ Release Date 2010-04-22 Series NHB Modern Plays Pages 120 Edition Description stage version Publication Date 2010-04-22 DEWEY 822.92 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:31698108;

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