Love! Valour! Compassion!

Play

Writers: Terrence McNally

Overview

Show Information

Category
Play
Number of Acts
3
Tony Award®
Best Play 1995
First Produced
1994
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Settings
Simple/No Set
Time & Place
Dutchess County, Upstate New York, 1990s
Cast Size
medium
Ideal for
All-Male Cast, Diverse Cast, Professional Theatre, Regional Theatre, Mature Audiences
Casting Notes
Mostly male cast
Includes young adult, adult characters

Synopsis

Winner of the 1995 Tony Award for Best Play and hailed by many critics as Terrence McNally’s finest play, Love! Valour! Compassion! centers around eight gay men who gather at the upstate New York home of celebrated dancer and choreographer Gregory Mitchell. Over the course of three holiday weekends, the men confront and analyze their lives, relationships, and friendships in a moving and hilarious exploration into love and loss in 90s America. As infidelity, AIDS, romance, and death infiltrate their friendship group, the men must decide who and what is most important when reality hits home. Set upon a mostly bare stage with the scenery imagined, Love! Valour! Compassion! finely treads the boundary between comedy and tragedy.

Editor’s Note: The play contains adult content and on-stage nudity.

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