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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.

Show Information

Category
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)
Number of Acts
3
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, Includes Young Adult, Adult Characters, Medium Cast

Context

Plot

Characters

Name Part Size Gender Vocal Part

Bobby Brahms

Lead

Male

Non-singer

Ramon Fornos

Lead

Male

Non-singer

Buzz Hauser

Lead

Male

Non-singer

John Jeckyll

Lead

Male

Non-singer

Gregory Mitchell

Lead

Male

Non-singer

Arthur Pape

Lead

Male

Non-singer

Perry Sellars

Lead

Male

Non-singer

James Jeckyll

Supporting

Male

Non-singer

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A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.

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Guide Written By:

Alexandra Appleton

Alexandra Appleton

Writer, editor and theatre researcher