Frustrated by the lack of love and affection in his life, celebrated gay painter David McMillan returns to his humble beginnings as a waiter where he hopes to find his lost creativity. He finds that more and more in the arms of his married male employer, Matt. Matt inspires David to paint the best pictures of his life. However, the affair forces David to face new realities about himself and his world when he reexamines his long-time friendship with a straight female gossip columnist, and when he watches his transsexual roommate live with being HIV positive. Premiered in the US in Cincinnati before opening at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Premiered in Canada in Edmonton.
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Brad Fraser is an award-winning and internationally renowned playwright with a reputation for being dark, witty, often shocking, and always controversial. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1959, Fraser has been writing for theatre and winning awards since his teens. Besides being a playwright, Brad Fraser has been a playwright-in-residence, a celebrity spokesperson for The AIDS Network of Edmonton, and has conducted interviews with many interesting people including Kim Campbell and kd lang. Fraser's success as a playwright was predicted early on... While Maclean's magazine told us Fraser was one of "100 Canadians to watch" Variety said he'd be "a major new force in North American play writing". His plays have been produced worldwide including Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Cincinnati, Washington DC, New York, Edinburgh, London, Sydney, Milan, and Tokyo. Brad Fraser currently lives in Toronto.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A great, messy wonderful play,
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This review is from: Poor Super Man: A Play With Captions (Prairie Play Series, No. 14) (Paperback)
I had the privilege of playing David in the San Francisco production of this play. While it is, indeed, a play, and definitely makes its greatest impact in production, I can still recall the visceral thrill I got the first time I read it. Here's a play as messy as the lives most of us lead, full of characters who do wonderful things, who do hateful things, who do absolutely unforgivable things. Fraser has an uncanny ability to pack an astonishing density of information into short, punchy, razor-sharp scenes -- to limn entire emotional histories into exchanges that last just a couple of lines. I couldn't wait to get out onstage each night and get to "be" this character, and I know my fellow cast members shared the feeling. If you're weary of gay-themed material that either preaches to the converted or is so "politically correct" as to have no relation at all to life as it is lived, this script will send both a shock of recognition and a thrill right through you. Believe it!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Play for All People,
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This review is from: Poor Super Man: A Play With Captions (Prairie Play Series, No. 14) (Paperback)
I was one of the fortunate ones who saw Poor Superman in its premiere production in Cincinnati, OH in 1994. The play caused such an uproar in conservative Cincinnati that it almost closed before it opened! I was lucky enough to see the play four times during its initial run, and have since seen another production at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, IN. This is a work which challenges the reader/audience member to look beyond him/herself into the lives of five rich, complex characters dealing with very real emotions and the realities of life, death, love and loathing. Brad Fraser's play is raw and visceral. The love scenes between the two male protagonists are explicit and incredibly erotic. The printed version of the play is quite beautifully laid out and includes photos from several productions (including the original Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati production). The front cover has a wonderfully campy cartoon drawn by Fraser himself. I highly recommend this play for reading and for performing. Buy it! read it! Perform it! You will fall in love!
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