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Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg (manuscript)

Winner of the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival Oscar Wilde Award for Outstanding Achievement in New Writing for the Theatre!

Recently revised!

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy, Drama
  • 105 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student
Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg is "the story of two days in the life of Gerry Gallagher, a conflicted but appealing gay Irish Catholic priest, and his long-time lover, Josh Kaplan, a Jewish atheist professor of English... 

In the course of the eve and day of St. Valentine, Gerry confronts an AIDS-related TB diagnosis, an archdiocesan plan to close his Puerto Rican parish to build a hospice for priests with AIDS, and an attempt to patch things up with Josh on what should be their seventh anniversary...the triumph of Ginsberg is that it never becomes heavy-handed or artificial. With liberal doses of humor provided by Gerry's Puerto Rican housekeeper, Lenore, the play moves rapidly." (Chicago Sun-Times)

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 1F

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Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg (manuscript) Script Order Now

Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg is the story of two days in the life of Gerry Gallagher, a conflicted but appealing gay Irish Catholic priest, and his long-time lover, Josh Kaplan, a Jewish atheist professor of English... In the course of the eve and day of St. Valentine, Gerry confronts an AIDS-related TB diagnosis, an archdiocesan plan to close his Puerto Rican parish to build a hospice for priests with AIDS, and an attempt to patch things up with Josh on what should be their seventh anniversary...the triumph of Ginsberg is that it never becomes heavy-handed or artificial. With liberal doses of humor provided by Gerry's Puerto Rican housekeeper, Lenore, the play moves rapidly. (Chicago Sun-Times) Unit set. Approximate running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes.

$19.95

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