5/28/2023 0 Comments Farm Boys by Will Fellows![]() ![]() First off, there’s no explicit sexuality and even physical affection is very tame. There’s an inevitable comparison between Farm Boys and the film Brokeback Mountain, given their shared theme. ![]() Later in the 20th century, these men had a sense of the larger world outside their rural communities.” “Earlier in the century, the pressures to conform meant many gay men married–unhappily. John Miller-Stephany, who’s also Associate Artistic Director at the Guthrie. “There’s an incredible divide between men who came of age before the 1970s and those who came of age after,” says director. Dean Gray was one of the 75 gay men Fellows interviewed and, with Amy Fox, the two playwrights created five totally engaging composite characters. The hit of the 2004 Raw Stages series draws from Will Fellows’ book about 37 Gay men who grew up in the rural Midwest, coming of age between the early 1930s through the 1980s. ![]() For starters, I can’t remember the last play that inspired so much warm laughter in an audience, as I experienced during Great American History Theatre’s premiere of Farm Boys (running through May 28th). ![]()
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