Tea and Sympathy
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Opened Mar 15, 2007
Closed Apr 14, 2007
Opened Mar 15, 2007
Closed Apr 14, 2007
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Keen Company presents its final show of the 2006/07 season, the first major NYC revival of Robert Anderson's 1953 hit Broadway play Tea And Sympathy. Jonathan Silverstein directs.
A bittersweet tale of adolescence, masculinity, and conformity, the play concerns a lonely and misunderstood 17-year-old boy in a New England boarding school. Presumed to be gay, Tom is mercilessly ridiculed by both cruel classmates and callous instructors. As his world turns against him, his only kindness comes from the wife of his chief accuser.
There is an additional matinee on Saturday, April 14 at 2 PM.
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When people say that a play is "dated," it's not always clear what they mean. Some plays are strongly tied to their era in terms of setting or language, yet they are so well written and so timeless in their concerns that they still hold the stage; others are no longer viable for production because they exhibit terribly outmoded social attitudes. As the Keen Company's strong revival of Tea and Sympathy proves, Robert Anderson's 1953 drama falls somewhere in the gray area between these two categories.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New Hampshire in the early 1950s, the play concerns the harassment of a young man who is perceived to be gay. Of course, this being the pre-Stonewall era, that[...]