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Happy Birthday Doug by Darryl Reilly

Mr. Droege's sharp and well-observed writing renders each of these familiar figures with biting depth, achieving grand mini-portraiture. Though preoccupied with comedy, an undercurrent of proportioned sentiment elevates the work above mere caricature. Promiscuity, aging, drugs, alcohol, loneliness and the past are among the issues eloquently explored in relation to the gay male lifestyle. Droege's shrewd structure ha…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53AM on February 16, 2020

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