'Edward the King' to Have Premiere at Gayfest 5/14
By: BWW News Desk
EDWARD THE KING (World Premiere) plays May 14-24 as part of GAYFEST
Beset by the duties of his birth and dominated by a heroic father, Edward looks forward to a life of apparent conformity and desperate subterfuge, until he meets Piers Gaveston in a dirty alley. It is love and rebellion at first sight. From then on, Edward steers a perilous course between desire and safety, which does not entirely end even when he becomes king, and faces not only the usual enemies of unconventional love, but his queen and her lover as well. Edward the King neatly straddles the fourteenth and twenty-first centuries, which manage to appear almost equally violent and inhospitable to love.
Passport: $75.00Tickets: $18.00www.Theatremania.com Location:
TBG Arts Center
312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018
Tickets: 212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111(toll free) The not-for-profit GAYFEST NYC features five fully-produced Main Stage and Studio Theatre productions featuring Actors' Equity Association casts and a Broadway-caliber creative staff. This year's Festival includes talk-backs with the authors and appearances by celebrated members of the LGBT community. Each of the five productions present a major new work by a gay author or spotlighting gay-friendly subject matter, spanning a range of genres from hard-hitting dramas to jewel box musicals.
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