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Love! Valor! Compassion! and A Perfect Ganesh: Two Plays

by Terrence McNally · 1995

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Beautifully written, moving , and very funny, Love! Valour! Compassion!gathers together eight gay men at the upstate New York summer house of a celebrated dancer-choreographer who fears he is losing his creativity...and possibly his lover. Infidelity, flirtations, soul-searching, AIDS, truth-telling, and skinny-dipping mix monumental questions about life and death with a wacky dress rehearsal for Swan Lakeperformed in drag. The result is a cross between a gay Big Chilland Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.To read it is to join in a dance of life.

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adult
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medium · 272 pages
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