Winner of the 1995 Tony Award for Best Play.
"...LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! The new play...is a big, generous, haunted
comedy that in its vaguely neo-Chekhovian way is both very funny and filled
with intimations of time's passage, of loss and death...it's Mr. McNally's
breadth of vision and his ambitious attempt to deal with characters, who are
both privileged and threatened, in a way that ignores self-pity but doesn't
ignore the larger world outside...Mr. McNally is in rare form." --NY Times.
"...in this beautifully written work McNally...presents humbling evidence of
what human love is and can be." --The New Yorker. "...LOVE! VALOUR!
COMPASSION! is one of [McNally's] very best. Unshowy and quiet, it rings
louder with authenticity than his satiric farces do with laughter."
--Village Voice. "It is [McNally's] Chekhovian apotheosis, his most
satisfying tapestry of emotional brights and darkness--so witty and tough
and beautiful that it helps identify our terrible time as a golden age for
gay theater. This also happens to be his most ambitiously unambiguous gay
play, and it speaks difficult truths with acid grace and all those generous
words exclaimed in his title." --NY Newsday.
CONTENT NOTICE: This Play Contains Nudity, Explicit Language and
Mature Gay Themes.
Director: Christopher Dykton
Producer: Rich Klare
Production Dates: Mar. 21, 22, 28, 29, Apr. 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 2003
Produced by special arrangement with
Dramatists Play Service.
ESP Productions are partially supported by a grant from the Virginia
Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
