- Marvin's Room (play)
-
For other uses, see Marvin's Room.
Marvin's Room Written by Scott McPherson Characters Bob
Marvin
Ruth
Lee
Bessie
Charlie
Dr. Wally
HankDate premiered 15 November 1991 Place premiered Playwrights Horizons
New York City, New YorkOriginal language English Marvin's Room is a play by written by Scott McPherson that premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on 15 November 1991, and later adapted for a film of the same title in 1996 [1][2].
The play is based upon McPherson's experiences with AIDS in his family, and later when his lover, activist Daniel Sotomayor, died of HIV-AIDS [3]; McPherson himself died in 1992 of AIDS at age 33 [4]
McPherson was born in Columbus, Ohio. He acted in a production of Larry Kramer's AIDS play, The Normal Heart, where he met his first partner, actor and playwright Steven Drukman. He wrote two other plays, 'Til the Fat Lady Sings and Scraped.
Contents
Awards and nominations
"Marvin's Room" had its premiere in Chicago in 1990 directed by David Petrarca and went on to national acclaim, including off-Broadway runs in New York and at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The play won the 1992 Outer Critics Circle award for best play, the 1992 Drama Desk award for best play and the Joseph Jefferson award in Chicago for best original work.
References
- ^ Two Wrenching Dramas Find Unexpected New Lives New York Times, December 8, 1996.
- ^ Walking the Tightrope That Is 'Marvin's Room' New York Times, December 12, 1991.
- ^ Marvin's Room Women Take Care: Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS, by Katie Hogan, Published by Cornell University Press, 2001. ISBN 0801487536. Page 14.
- ^ A Door Left Ajar in 'Marvin's Room' by David Richards, Washington Post Staff Writer, January 5, 1997.
Further reading
- McPherson, Scott (1992). Marvin's Room (First edition ed.). New York: Plume drama. ISBN 0452269229.
- Marvin's Room The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, by Don B. Wilmeth, Leonard Jacobs. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 0521835380. page 430.
- The Applause-Best Plays Theater Yearbook, 1990-1991: Featuring the Ten Best Plays of the Year, by Otis L. Guernsey, Jeffrey Sweet. Illustrated by Al Hirschfield. Applause Theatre Books, 2000. ISBN 1557831076. Page 476
- Marvin's Room. Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. 1993. ISBN 9780822213123. http://books.google.com/books?id=chggBIW8_7sC&pg=PA69&dq=Scott+McPherson+(playwright)&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- "MARVIN'S ROOM: A Study Guide", Public Theatre, February, 2004
External links
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play (1975–2000) Same Time, Next Year / Equus (1975) · Streamers (1976) · A Texas Trilogy / Otherwise Engaged (1977) · Da (1978) · The Elephant Man (1979) · Children of a Lesser God (1980) · Amadeus (1981) · Master Harold...and the Boys (1982) · Torch Song Trilogy (1983) · The Real Thing (1984) · As Is (1985) · A Lie of the Mind (1986) · Fences (1987) · M. Butterfly (1988) · The Heidi Chronicles (1989) · The Piano Lesson (1990) · Lost in Yonkers (1991) · Marvin's Room (1992) · Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993) · Angels in America: Perestroika (1994) · Love! Valour! Compassion! (1995) · Master Class (1996) · How I Learned to Drive (1997) · The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1998) · Wit (1999) · Copenhagen (2000)
Complete list · (1955–1974) · (1975–2000) · (2001–2025) 
This article on a play is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
