Love, Valour, and Compassion

ANDREWS LIVING ARTS is very proud to present Terrence McNally’s Tony-Award winning play, LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! at its intimate stage for a limited engagement, August 4th  thru 20th, 2016.

The play originated at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1994, and moved to Broadway in 1995, where it won both the Best Play Drama Desk and Tony Awards.  Subsequently in 1997, it was captured in a film adapted by McNally and featuring six of the seven original stage cast members.  Its last South Florida professional productions were 20 years ago, when both New Theatre and the Caldwell competed to present it the same year.  After 20 years, its themes of gay love, friendship, fears, pride and acceptance need to be shared again.

At a beautiful country farmhouse, eight gay men come together over the three summer Holiday weekends – Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor Day in 1995.  They share romance, anger, laughter, and difficult truths.  With great humor, the men address the revealing questions of gay identity, self-esteem, the threat of AIDS, and male love.  In looking at this seminal work twenty years later, we see that while the world has changed, but there are still lingering challenges yet to be conquered.  But through Compassion and Strength (the Valour in the title), there is above all, Love! After Orlando, “we still need it now!”