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A Breeze from the Gulf
A Breeze from the Gulf
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Author: Mart Crowley Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 97 Pub. Date: 1974 ISBN-10: 0573606463 ISBN-13: 9780573606465 Cast Size: 1 woman, 2 men
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About
the Play:
A Breeze from the Gulf is a full-length drama by Mart
Crowley. This unofficial, auto-biographical prelude to The
Boys in the Band is about a father, mother, and son and tells of
the destructive effects each has upon the other. The author takes us
on a journey back to a small Mississippi town to watch a 15 year old
boy suffer through adolescence to adulthood and success as a writer.
A Breeze from the Gulf centers around the character of
Michael (noted to also be the character of Michael from The Boys
in the Band) as a young man and his relationship to his
drug-addled mother and alcoholic father. His mother is a frilly
southern doll who has nothing to fall back on when her beauty fades.
She develops headaches and other physical problems, while the
asthmatic son turns to dolls and toys at an age when other boys are
turning to sports. The travelling father becomes withdrawn, takes to
drink; and mother takes to drugs to kill the pain of the remembrances
of things past. She ends in an asylum, and the father in his fumbling
way tries to tell the son to live the life he must.
A Breeze from the Gulf premiered in 1973 at the Eastside
Playhouse off-Broadway in New York City and earned a second place
vote for the prestigious New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best
Play. Since then the play
has produced at professional theatres across the US.
Cast: 1 female, 2 male
What people say:
"So honestly written that you
cling to it for dear life. Mr. Crowley is a writer, as Boys in the
Band made clear ... his ear for speech is sharp as before, his
economy and candor with a line as cutting." — New
York Times
"It is a sensitively written
... emotional experience that moved me deeply.... It is a play about
a family in Mississippi and the pain of life and the struggle to
survive the terrible things people do to each other in the
name of love." — The Chicago Tribune
"The boy is plunged into a
world of suffering he didn't create...One of the most electrifying
plays I've seen in the past few years...Goes straight to the heart."
— Sunday Times (London)
About the Playwright:
Mart Crowley, shortened to Mart Crowley, (1935-2020) was an
acclaimed American playwright whose best-known work, The Boys in
the Band, broke the mold of how gay life was depicted onstage. He
went on to write many other plays, including a prequel to his seminal
work, titled A Breeze from the Gulf, and work in television;
he was a producer on the ABC series Hart to Hart.
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