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Los Angeles 1914 - a place where modern world reality meets 19th Century bigotry. A time when law enforcement agencies are on a collision course with the clandestine and illicit gay community. In this environment, the police department of Long Beach, California hire two actors as "vice specialists" - their role "to entrap social vagrants" in a sexual act by posing as homosexual men. Lurking in public restrooms and bathhouses, they entice likely suspects into exposing their genitals, then arrest them and in so doing earn a shot. Thirty-one men are arrested. At least one commits suicide. The American Way tells the true story of a dark chapter in the history of gay rights. Two actors take on a dizzying array of characters from cops to vagrants, lawyers to hacks, bait to quarry in a work that tackles the thorny themes of persecution, secret love, sex, deception and the relationship between dissemblance and performance.T0912946187Producer The Collective (in association with Jermyn Street Theatre). Director Marylynne Anderson-Cooper. Performer James Sindall. Performer Fraser Wall. | |
| 7 Jan 17 to 28 Jan 17 | Jermyn Street Theatre, Inner London :: V207 listing details L0714236369 |
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