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Adapted by Tommy Murphy from Tim Conigrave's Holding the Man. Commissioned by Griffin Theatre Company and developed as part of the Playwrights' Residency project.
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Dedication: For Tim.
Production Details
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First produced by Griffin Theatre Company at SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney, 9 November - 16 December 2006.
Director: David Berthold.
Designer: Brian Thomson.
Lighting Designer: Stephen Hawker.
Sound Designer: Basil Hogios.
Costume Designer: Michael Agosta.
Cast: Jeanette Cronin, Nicholas Eadie, Guy Edmonds, Robin McLeavy, Brett Stiller, and Matt Zeremes.
Return season at Griffin Theatre Company from 8 February to 3 March 2007.
Cast and crew as above.
Produced at Trafalgar Studios, London, 4 May - 3 July 2010.
Director: David Berthold.
Produced at La Boite, in partnership with Philip Bacon Galleries and Wrightson Stewart, 16 February to 16 March 2013.
Director: David Berthold.
Designer: Brian Thomson.
Costumes and Puppets: Micka Agosta.
Lighting Designer: David Walters.
Composer and Sound Designer: Basil Hogios.
Cast: Eugene Gilfedder, Jai Higgs, Helen Howard, Lauren Jackson, Jerome Meyer, and Alec Snow.
Performed at Belvior Street's Upstairs Theatre : 9 March - 14 April 2024
Director: Eamon Flack.
Cast: Danny Ball, Tom Conroy, Guy Simon, Russell Dysktra, Rebecca Massey, and Shannen Alyce Quan.
Costume Designer: Mel Page.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Love, Loss and Tears – but Also Laughter : Belvoir’s Compelling and Skilful Staging of Holding the Man
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 March 2024;
— Review of Holding the Man 2006 single work drama'Walking through Chippendale on my way to Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre, where this production of Holding the Man is playing, I pass by the York Theatre. This was the theatre where, in 1985, Timothy Conigrave, author of the original memoir upon which the play is based, was rehearsing a touring show of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. He had to excuse himself from one rehearsal for an appointment where he learned his HIV-positive diagnosis.' (Introduction)
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‘We Are Lucky to Be Alive When We Are’: a Devastating Gay Love Story Returns to the Stage
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 25 February 2024;
— Review of Holding the Man 2006 single work drama'Thirty years after Holding the Man author Timothy Conigrave died, Belvoir St theatre’s artistic director is bringing back the play adapted from the book – with his partner in the lead role'
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Corr Values
2016
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column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 23 January 2016; -
Berthold Returns to His Baby, A Tale of Love
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 20 February 2013; (p. 30)
— Review of Holding the Man 2006 single work drama -
Getting to Grips
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9-10 February 2013; (p. 9)
— Review of Holding the Man 2006 single work drama
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Love, Blood and Death: Just as It Was
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 November 2006; (p. 23)
— Review of Holding the Man 2006 single work drama -
A Must-See
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 20 May 2007; (p. 22)
— Review of Holding the Man 2006 single work drama -
Catholic Schoolboys' Story of Love and AIDS Death
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 28 November vol. 16 no. 18 2006; (p. 28-29)
— Review of Holding the Man 2006 single work drama -
A Tale of Two Romeos
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 1 - 2 March 2008; (p. 5)
— Review of Holding the Man 2006 single work drama -
Powerful Love Story
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 - 9 March 2008; (p. 48)
— Review of Holding the Man 2006 single work drama -
Watch this Face : Tommy Murphy
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: The (Sydney) Magazine , November no. 43 2006; (p. 32) -
Pieces of a Life, in Their Hands
2006
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criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 October 2006; (p. 14) -
A Theatre of Optimism
2006
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criticism
— Appears in: Strangers in Between [and] Holding the Man : Two Plays 2006; (p. vii-ixii) -
Theatre
2007
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column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 February 2007; (p. 5) -
Striking the Right Chord
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5-6 May 2007; (p. 18-19)
Awards
- 2007 winner NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights
- 2007 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Drama Script (Stage)
- 2007 winner AWGIE Awards — Stage Award
- 2007 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia — Best Play Nominated for the 2006 Griffin Theatre Company production.
- 2007 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting
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- Sydney, New South Wales,
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