Details

The Temperamentals tells the story of two men who faced an epic struggle to create history - and who, through their struggles, fell in love. In pre-Stonewall America the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich came together to build the Mattachine Society, the first gay rights organisation, in a world where danger was never far away and an intoxicating secrecy hung in the air. The Temperamentals marries the personal and the political to explore a relatively unknown chapter in gay history, celebrating the men prepared to risk everything to realise what seemed to be an impossible dream.

Creatives/Company

Author: John Marans
Producer(s): Greenwich Theatre, City Lights Theatre Company, Wild Oats Productions