![]() ![]() ![]() That 1977-1983 time frame is more than just a playwright’s device it’s the time period in which Harvey Fierstein, the play’s author and original star, developed Torch Song as a series of three one-acts. By 1983, when the evening concludes, Arnold is adopting a 15-year-old boy–and is just on the verge of growing up himself. Arnold, the play’s hero, is just 24 in 1977, when the play begins–a streetwise gay guy who’s been around and knows the ropes but still yearns for the “international stud” of his dreams. And (with one exception) they are all young–very young, younger than they know. Yeats’s phrase, “the young in one another’s arms.” The people in Torch Song spend an awful lot of time embracing–not just making love, but talking, comforting, sharing joy and soothing sorrow, most of which they have caused each other. Watching Torch Song Trilogy at Reflections Theatre last week, I was reminded of W.B. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation. ![]() Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Ticket prices go up May 15 > Close ![]()
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