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Bug
by Richard Greenberg
Broadway Off-Broadway Off-West End
Highlights
120 mins Present Day All Men Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Expandable Casting Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American
Awards & Recognition
Drama Desk Award Lucille Lortel Award Outer Critics Circle Pulitzer Prize Tony Award
Winner! Three 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Play Finalist: 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! Two 2003 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Play Winner! 2003 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play Winner! Two 2022 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play Winner! Two 2022 Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Play Nominee: Seven 2003 Drama Desk Awards
Synopsis
A funny and troubling look at athletes and identity .
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Take Me Out is a dynamic, involving play.?
Donald Lyons, New York Post
Darren Lemming is the star center fielder for the champion New York Empires.
An extraordinary athlete, he fills both his fans and his teammates with awe at his abilities and his presence on the field and off.
When he makes the matter-of-fact announcement that he
s gay, he throws his team into turmoil and confusion, while he also emboldens his closeted accountant, Mason Marzac, to come to terms with his own sexuality
and to fully experience the pure joy of watching great athletes play a sport as well as it can be played.
But Darren
s announcement brings to the fore the confused and twisted hostilities of the Empires?
brilliantly talented but deeply racist and homophobic pitcher, Shane Mungitt
from whose rage tragic consequences ensue.
The American premiere of Take Me Out took place at the Public Theater in New York City in September 2002.
It will move to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway in February 2003.
Press Reviews
"What an enchanting and enchanted take on baseball Mr. Greenberg has created…passionately personal and lyrically analytical. It’s a sensibility that is so smart, raw and sincere all at once that you may find tears in your eyes…an unconditional, all-American epiphany…to cherish.“ – The New York Times”A heady, heartfelt and enormously appealing romance…Perhaps never in my theatergoing experience have I experienced such an overwhelming – and spontaneous – surge of affection sent across the footlights.“ – Variety“Take Me Out may have been written twenty years ago – when people were already buzzing about the possible comings-out of players in traditionally macho sporting bastions – but it cleverly eschews the most conventional narratives about LGBTQ people in sport and public life more generally. Unlike the debate at the time, and the debate still today, the closet is barely mentioned, the oppression and responsibility an LGBTQ athlete may feel is not the focus either, and nor is coming out…"
— Washington Post
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Toddy Koovitz |
| Rodriguez |
| Kippy Sunderstrom |
| Martinez |
| The Skipper |
| Mason Marzac |
| Jason Chenier |
| Darren Lemming |
| Shane Mungitt |
| Takeshi Kawabata |
| Davey Battle |
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Take Me Out – 2022 Broadway Revival Excerpt
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 2005
Binding Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 69
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822219934
ISBN-10 082221993X
LCCN 2006387871
LCC PS3557.R3789 T35 2004
Bug is a American play written by Richard Greenberg and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2005).
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