Future Selections for the Group:
(Please note: Schedule is subject to change
depending on availability of selections or at the discretion of Group
members)
Selection for February 2012
"A
model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation
is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent
printing decisions (on dividing the text, spacing for clarification,
etc.); the notes are kept to a minimum but appear when they are really
needed for comprehension and are truly informative. And the introduction
admirably presents both basic information and a sense of current scholarly
opinion."
—S. G. Nugent, Princeton
University
Selection for March 2012
The Boys in the Band
by
Mart Crowley
This seminal work of the Off-Broadway movement premiered in 1968 and was a long-running hit onstage, later filmed with the original cast. In 2010, the play made a triumphant return to New York City in an highly praised production produced by Drama Desk and Obie Award winning Transport Group.
In his upper eastside Manhattan apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-awoved "32 year-old, pock-marked, Jew fairy", complete with surprise gift: "Cowboy" a street hustler. As the evening wears on, fueled by drugs and alcohol, bitter, unresolved resentments among the guests come to light when a game of "Truth" goes terribly wrong.
Selection for April 2012
Last Exit to Brooklyn
by
Hubert Selby
Last Exit to Brooklyn remains undiminished in its awesome power and magnitude as the novel that first showed us the fierce, primal rage seething in America’s cities. Selby brings out the dope addicts, hoodlums, prostitutes, workers, and thieves brawling in the back alleys of Brooklyn. This explosive best-seller has come to be regarded as a classic of modern American writing.
Selection for June 2012
The Normal Heart
by
Larry Kramer
The Normal Heart, set during the early days of the AIDS
epidemic, is the impassioned story of Ned Weeks. The play is a moving
denunciation of the ignorance and fear that lead to the worldwide plague
that now exists. Its companion play, The Destiny of Me, continues the
story of Weeks, now in a hospital undergoing treatment, as he finds
himself confronting his life and fighting to get a little more time among
the living.
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