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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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