←Recommendations of Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America

  • Lennox Murphy: Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America by Joshua Irving Gershick
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    I've seen several iterations of this script and have loved it each time. The playwright mines these archived letters for their gems. I left each performance wanting to know the characters, wanting to have coffee with them, wanting to hear more of their stories. This is rarely true of characters in a play.

    I've seen several iterations of this script and have loved it each time. The playwright mines these archived letters for their gems. I left each performance wanting to know the characters, wanting to have coffee with them, wanting to hear more of their stories. This is rarely true of characters in a play.

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  • Nancy Robillard: Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America by Joshua Irving Gershick
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    When I read Dear ONE: Love and Longing in Mid-Century Queer America, I fell in love on the first page. The writers to ONE Magazine leapt right into my heart. The play brought me into a world that I had not known existed—Queer America before Stonewall. The writing is moving, sometimes heartbreaking, and at times made me laugh out loud. I had the privilege of directing a benefit production of the play in NYC, and our audiences LOVED IT!

    When I read Dear ONE: Love and Longing in Mid-Century Queer America, I fell in love on the first page. The writers to ONE Magazine leapt right into my heart. The play brought me into a world that I had not known existed—Queer America before Stonewall. The writing is moving, sometimes heartbreaking, and at times made me laugh out loud. I had the privilege of directing a benefit production of the play in NYC, and our audiences LOVED IT!

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  • Jennie Webb: Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America by Joshua Irving Gershick
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    This is the kind of play that sneaks up on you - in its simplicity, its honesty and its often unexpected humor - and ultimately hits you where it counts. The playwright manages to create such a compelling narrative through real-life letters, drawing pictures of specific people and places while a much bigger story unfolds. A story that belongs onstage.

    This is the kind of play that sneaks up on you - in its simplicity, its honesty and its often unexpected humor - and ultimately hits you where it counts. The playwright manages to create such a compelling narrative through real-life letters, drawing pictures of specific people and places while a much bigger story unfolds. A story that belongs onstage.

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  • Paige Borak: Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America by Joshua Irving Gershick
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    I cried FIVE times while reading this piece. The words are those of each letter writer, but the placement of each letter is amazingly impactful as well. All together it is a beautiful picture of the fear, hope, joy, and love in the queer community in the 1950s and 1960s.

    I cried FIVE times while reading this piece. The words are those of each letter writer, but the placement of each letter is amazingly impactful as well. All together it is a beautiful picture of the fear, hope, joy, and love in the queer community in the 1950s and 1960s.

    ”