The treatment of homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps is dramatized through the attempts of the prisoners to survive and of one, Max, to deny his homosexuality

Bent (Bard Book)

Literature & Fiction

SHERMAN, Martin

Dramas & Plays

Avon/Books

I'm eighty years old. I find that unforgivable and suddenly it's a millennium and I stink of the past century, but what can I do? 
 Rose is a survivor. Her remarkable life began in a tiny Russian village, took her to Warsaw's ghettos and a ship called The Exodus, and finally to the boardwalks of Atlantic City, the Arizona canyons and salsa-flavoured nights in Miami beach. The play is both a sharply drawn portrait of a feisty Jewish woman and a moving reminder of some of the events that shaped the century. Rose, written by the celebrated author of Bent, premiered in May 1999 at the Royal National Theatre London.

Rose (Modern Plays)

Humor & Entertainment

Methuen Drama

First major theatrical adaptation of Em Forster's classic novel for a contemporary audience 
 Before deciding whether to marry Chandrapore's local magistrate, Adela Quested wants to discover the "real India" for herself. Newly arrived from England, she agrees to see the Marabar Caves with the charming Dr Aziz.
Through this one harmless event Forster exposes the absurdity, hysteria and depth of cultural ignorance that existed in British India in the twenties. E.M. Forster's classic novel is here adapted in this highly theatrical, humorous and faithful version for the stage by the author of Bent, Martin Sherman.
Published to tie in with a major new production of A Passage To India produced by Shared Experience Theatre company.

A Passage To India (Modern Plays)

Forster, E.M.

The first collection by a seminal contemporary gay playwright BENT (1979): "A heroic myth ...It has the laughter which Yeats asserted lay at the heart of tragedy." (Listener) "It is ...a play of importance, power and pathos which should concern us all." (Guardian) The play follows the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. It received a Tony nomination for Best Play and won The Dramatists' Guild Hull-Warriner Award. CRACKS (1973): a comedy set in the gay scene in California of the 70s where an assassin is on the loose. MESSIAH (1982) is a moving drama about the life of a small Jewish community in the 17th century. ROSE (1999): Rose is a survivor of the Warsaw ghettos. She arrives on the boardwalks of Atlantic City, the Arizona canyons and salsa-flavoured nights in Miami beach. The play is sharply drawn reminder of some of the events that shaped the century.

Sherman Plays: 1: Cracks; Bent; Messiah; Rose (Plays: Martin Sherman (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists))

Madhouse in Goa, a play by Martin Sherman

Madhouse in Goa: A Play

Samuel French Inc Plays

Rose

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Methuen / Stage & Screen

(Applause Books). Martin Sherman's worldwide hit play Bent took London by storm in 1979 when it was first performed by the Royal Court Theatre, with Ian McKellen as Max (a character written with the actor in mind). The play itself caused an uproar. "It educated the world," Sherman explains. "People knew about how the Third Reich treated Jews and, to some extent, gypsies and political prisoners. But very little had come out about their treatment of homosexuals." Gays were arrested and interned at work camps prior to the genocide of Jews, gypsies, and handicapped, and continued to be imprisoned even after the fall of the Third Reich and liberation of the camps. The play Bent highlights the reason why - a largely ignored German law, Paragraph 175, making homosexuality a criminal offense, which Hitler reactivated and strengthened during his rise to power.

Bent (Plays)

Aurora Metro Pubns

Messiah

Harpercollins

A Madhouse in Goa (Plays)

Exploring relationships in the alien hyperworlds of circus performers, taxi drivers, and single fathers, Martin Sherman looks at the shattered universes of characters struggling to persist amid shards of their faith.

Elephant Hook and Other Stories (Nunatak Series)

United States

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