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Start: It’s nothing really. Just a drea...

Ed Reiss

Torch Song Trilogy

Harvey Fierstein

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Five
Time & Place
dressing room at drag theatre, late 1970s
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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It’s nothing really. Just a dream I had last week. I dreamt that I was in my parents’ house and I went down to my fathers workshop and got an old rag and a can of turpentine. Then I went into the kitchen and got a plastic bag.

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I felt dizzy so I went back to bed and there, on the pillow, was the plastic bag with the turpentine soaked rag. (Long pause) I couldn’t tell anyone else about it.

Harvey Fierstein, Torch Song Trilogy, in Out Plays: Landmark Gay and Lesbian Plays of the Twentieth Century, ed. Ben Hodges, 2008. pp.432.

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