Torch Song Trilogy | |
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Written by | Harvey Fierstein |
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Date premiered | January 15, 1982 |
Place premiered | Actors' Playhouse, Greenwich Village, New York City |
Original language | English |
Genre | Drama |
Setting | 1970s, 1980s New York City |
Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish homosexual, drag queen, and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The four-hour play begins with a soliloquy in which he explains his cynical disillusionment with love.