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Based on the award-winning memoir by Timothy Conigrave, and adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy Murphy, Holding the Man tells a remarkable true-life love story that speaks across generations, sexualities and cultures.
The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you are secretly gay in an all-male school in 1970s Melbourne with a crush on the captain of the football team.
Against the odds, Tim and John develop a relationship that, for fifteen years, survives everything life throws at it-the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses-until the only problem that love can't solve turns up to part them.
The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you are secretly gay in an all-male school in 1970s Melbourne with a crush on the captain of the football team.
Against the odds, Tim and John develop a relationship that, for fifteen years, survives everything life throws at it-the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses-until the only problem that love can't solve turns up to part them.
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"'A tender, finely observed portrait of male friendship, and a stirring requiem for the vanishing dignity of rural England'"
Evening Standard
"'A right little cracker, a small but beautifully observed two-hander about a dying way of life and male friendship that spans 12 years... a savagely funny and sad play'"
Guardian
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- SeriesNHB Modern Plays