Title

Bent, February 6-8, 2014

Authors

Theatre Arts Discipline

Files

Document Type

Program

Description

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Bent by Martin Sherman and directed by Deon Haider.

Synopsis: Bent is a story of living versus survival. It concerns Max, a gay "wheeler-dealer" who leads a dissolute life of drink, drugs, and sporadic sex in prewar Berlin. One night he and his lover Rudy pick up the wrong man--someone who's on the Nazi's wanted list. Max and Rudy are forced to flee Berlin and live underground. Ultimately they are arrested, and sent to Dachau. En route, Rudy is murdered, but Max survives with the help of a "pink triangle" prisoner, Horst.

Once in Dachau, Max makes a deal to wear a Jewish star, therefore avoiding the pink triangle, the badge of the "lowest," the homosexual. He arranges for Horst to be on his work detail, doing pointless and exhausting--but not dangerous--labor. As time goes by, they fall in love. They become lovers through their imagination, and through their words. When Horst is threatened, Max understands, at last, that life is more than mere survival.

Publication Date

2-2014

Disciplines

Theatre and Performance Studies

Recommended Citation

Theatre Arts Discipline, "Bent, February 6-8, 2014" (2014). Theatre Programs. 15.
https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/theatre_programs/15

Primo Type

Text Resource