The Last Sunday In June
by Jonathan Tolins

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Highlights

90 minsInterior SetAmericanComedy

What readers are saying

Readers find 'The Last Sunday In June' to be a mix of humor and familiar themes. Some feel it falls into typical clichés associated with gay plays, while others appreciate the cute moments in the script.

Humorous and lightheartedCute moments in dialogueClichéd themes and storylines

Synopsis

Comedy/Drama Full Length 7 men, 1 woman: 8 total Interior "A smart timely and very funny play.

A mature work full of bold surprises…Mr.

Tolins has provided a useful sociological service, a taking of cultural temperature at a moment when it needs to be taken…[he] succeeds smartly at his intention here, which is to express impatience with the staler elements of gay dramatic literature and to push the 'gay play' forward into its next generation of concerns."

—NY Times.

"A crowd pleasing crackerjack…funny and observant."

—NY Newsday.

"A deftly constructed and cunningly written piece, hovering between a parody of and an homage to the gay play…There's life in the gay comedy yet!" —NY Post.

THE STORY: It is the last Sunday in June, the day of the annual Gay Pride Parade through New York's Greenwich Village.

Tom and Michael, his partner of seven years, intend to spend the day planning their impending move from the Big Apple to the upstate town of Nyack, but their plans are rerouted as one friend after another drops by to view the parade from the window of their apartment.

An afternoon originally designated for shopping at Pottery Barn instead turns into a series of conversations about relationships, self-acceptance and the very meaning of what it is to be gay, eventually calling into question Tom and Michael's relationship itself.

Press Reviews

"A smart timely and very funny play. A mature work full of bold surprises…Mr. Tolins has provided a useful sociological service, a taking of cultural temperature at a moment when it needs to be taken…[he] succeeds smartly at his intention here, which is to express impatience with the staler elements of gay dramatic literature and to push the 'gay play' forward into its next generation of concerns.“ —The New York Times. ”A crowd pleasing crackerjack…funny and observant.“ —Newsday (NY). ”A deftly constructed and cunningly written piece, hovering between a parody of and an homage to the gay play…There's life in the gay comedy yet!"

— New York Post

Publication

Year2004
BindingPaperback
Pages72
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780822219743
ISBN-100822219743
LCCN2005298889
LCCPS3570.O4275 L37 2004b

The Last Sunday In June is a American comedy play written by Jonathan Tolins and published by Dramatists Play Service (2004).

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Dramatists Play Service · 2004 · 72 pp

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