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Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)
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  • Female: 0
  • Male: 2
Style
Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
Arnold’s apartment, New York City, early 1980s
Act/Scene
Act Three, Scene Four

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Ed; Huh? What?

Arnold: It’s me. Go to sleep.

Ed: Arnold? Oh. (Trying to wake.) What time is it?

Arnold: Almost six. Go to sleep.

[... … …]

End:

Ed: You ready? Now you better listen good ‘cause I don’t know when I’ll get the guts to say it again.

Arnold: Ed, you’re going to wake my mother.

Ed: So, let her hear. I hope they’re both listening. Might as well let everyone know. Is everyone listening? O.K. Here goes. Arnold Beckoff … I love …

Harvey Fierstein, Torch Song Trilogy, in Out Plays: Landmark Gay and Lesbian Plays of the Twentieth Century, ed. Ben Hodges, 2008. pp.516-521.

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