Word: gayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...knew coming into this that I was going to be playing a gay person onstage and oh, great, I’m the only actually gay person who will be playing a gay person on stage,” Hickey said...
...role was still daunting. Priour’s character is a part-time “club designer” from New York City, a gay man who glories in his own flamboyance. And Priour isn’t just playing any gay character—he’s playing one of the leads of “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner’s groundbreaking, quintessential play about being gay in America...
...Angels in America” is full of challenges for actors. It’s a two-part, six hour epic about four gay men in New York during the 1980s AIDS epidemic. But it’s also about democratic theory, celestial orgasms, the ozone layer...
...stakes are high. When college students stage a show as ambitious as “Angels,” failure is a real possibility. So is disappointing the members of the gay community for whom “Angels” is not just a play but a testimony to an incredibly painful era. “It’s so important that our actors—gay and straight alike—it’s very important that they’re not playing gay,” said Laura C. Hirschberg...
Three of the four central characters are being played by straight actors. All four male leads said they put a lot of thought into what it meant to play a gay man in a play about gay identity. For all of them, the goal was to make their character seem real. Not a gay guy—just...