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Bent

April 18 - May 11
Thursdays - Saturdays - 8pm
Sundays - 2pm (No show April 20th)

Directed by - Bruce Coleman

$22 - $25

First produced in 1979, BENT was nominated for both a Pulitzer and a Tony award in 1980.Uptown Players is taking their own kind of risk producing such a legendary play, but it is a very important script to bring to the stage for many to revisit, and even more who will discover BENT for the first time.

Essentially a love story, BENT follows Max (David Plunkett) on his journey from the hedonistic Berlin of the early 1930’s to his death in Dachau concentration camp. It depicts the two great loves of his life: Rudy (Andrew Phifer), a somewhat hapless dancer who is murdered on a Nazi transport train for being “intelligentsia” (he wore glasses) and Horst (Kevin Moore), a fellow prisoner at the camp. Max contrives to become a “yellow star” in Dachau rather than wearing the pink triangle that demarcates him as being homosexual.

We suggest that the underlying principles of hatred, whether fueling single outrageous events of violence or leading to a holocaust, are fundamentally the same. This drama will remind us that we must be as vigilant against prejudice and hatred in 2007/2008 as the world should have been in 1937/1938.


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