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school, where my professor decreed, “It’s painting, not painted. Art is a

verb.”

The three plays of Torch Song Trilogy were written and produced

sequentially. I included enough backstory from one to the next so that each

could be experienced independently, but in my mind I was telling a single

tale.

The International Stud was written and performed at La MaMa E.T.C. in

1978. We moved it to a commercial run at the Players Theatre on

MacDougal Street, where it ran a few months and closed.

The following season I wrote Fugue in a Nursery and premiered it at La

MaMa E.T.C., as well. A commercial producer transferred it to the

Orpheum Theatre on Second Avenue, where it, too, met commercial failure.

While awaiting that transfer I wrote the third part of the trilogy, Widows

and Children First! Once again, it premiered at La MaMa, and once again it

was optioned by a commercial producer. But when Fugue closed OffBroadway I soured on the notion that Widows would do any better on its

own than the first two had. Thankfully, that production never materialized.

The following June, John Glines was putting together a Gay Play Festival

under the auspices of his theater company, The Glines, and asked if I could

arrange a one-night event of readings from the trilogy. That was the first

time I studied the script as a whole, to choose what scenes were necessary

to tell the entire story in a brief presentation. The evening was a great

success and proved to me that the plays needed to be seen together.

Fortunately, John agreed.