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Holding the Man is based on Timothy Conigrave’s celebrated memoir of the same name which won the 1995 UN Human Rights Award for Non-Fiction and was voted one of Australia’s top 100 most favourite books. Tommy Murphy’s stage adaptation faithfully captures the book’s heart-wrenchingly honest portrayal of a fifteen-year relationship, but also succeeds in transforming it into a unique theatrical experience that is wholly his own.
‘Tommy Murphy’s adaptation of Tim Conigrave’s memoir is an act of urgent remembrance, an unflinching, devastating, moving and funny reanimation ... It is also the story of two people in love… compelling, wrenching and essential. I laughed, and I wept.’ Stephen Dunne,
SMH
‘a powerful story, of a surprisingly and heroically enduring love and Murphy dramatises it with a great deal of humour and feeling.’ John McCallum,
Australian
‘Holding The Man
is something of an impossible miracle. It's a brilliant play that delights and entertains, teasing you from the distractions of life’s cruelties only to slug a full-force hit to your heart as a reminder that life is, if anything, double-edged.’ Sydney Stage Online
'This is Magic Realism at its finest' Australian Stage
Published with
Strangers in Between.
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-796-8 | PB
Author
Tommy Murphy was born in 1979 in Queanbeyan, the seventh of eight children. He is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Director’s course) and the University of Sydney where he was president of Sydney University Dramatic Society.
He was winner of the Sydney Theatre Company Young Playwrights’ Award and the ACT Young Writers’ Award for his first play,
For God, Queen and Country. His second play
Troy’s House has been performed in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.
Strangers in Between and
Holding the Man were commissioned, developed and premiered by the Griffin Theatre Company where Tommy was in residence.
Strangers in Between won the 2006 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Best Play.
For more information about Tommy Murphy and his work, click here.
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