Bent

a drama

by Martin Sherman

featuring Trevor Day, Chris Kramer, Zlatomir Moldovanski,Kelly Rossberg, Matthew Alan Troillett, and Kellen York

directed by Alan Patrick Kenny

March 12-April 5, 2009

March 12-14, 19-21, 26-28, April 2-4 @ 8pm
March 15, 22, 29, April 5 @ 3pm

Tickets: $20 General, $16 Senior, $12 Student

Content Warning: for Mature Audiences - ages 17 and up

NSC is honored to present Cincinnati’s first professional production of Martin Sherman’s landmark 1979 drama, Bent.  This provocative story follows one man’s journey from the hedonistic cabarets and clubs of 1930’s Berlin to the inhuman excess of an oppressive regime.  When Max falls in love with a fellow prisoner he discovers the true meaning of love and self-acceptance against impossible odds.  Bent has touched a universal nerve in over 50 countries and over 21 languages, addressing current issues of identity and humanity in the world we live in with passion and humor.  Directed by Alan Patrick Kenny.

“A shattering play of intense action, written in the language of the holocaust.  One of the most important political and cultural events of the last few years.”

-Christopher St. Magazine

“Martin Sherman’s Bent is relevant to events and facts today of life throughout the world where gay people are often put at a disadvantage by the laws of whatever country they happen to live in.  Although things are improving, I think it’s because of this story that Martin Sherman has told so strongly presenting the case for human understanding and what it is to be gay.”

-original Bent star Sir Ian McKellen

- to NSC's 2008-2009 Season: "New Stage in the City"

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