THE BOYS IN THE BAND
Mart Cowley
The Boys in the Band was the first commercially successful play to reveal gay life and gay community to mainstream America. This special 40th anniversary edition, with an original foreword and previously unpublished photos of the playwright and various casts.
Set in an apartment in Manhattan, nine of Harold's closest friends are throwing him a birthday party. Guests include a male prostitiute, a Roman Catholic alcoholic, a closet gay man, an African-American whose tastes run to white boys,; a flambouyantly stereotypical camp gay men; a couple with monogamy issues; and Alan - Michael's allegedly straight college friends, who has something to tell him.
During the party the self-deprecating humour takes a nasty turn as the men grw increasingly inebriated. The party culminates in a game where each man must call someone and tell him he loves him.
120 pages, paperback
