Virgins and Other Myths

Theatres

Name	Address	From	To
Primary Stages	354 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036	01/16/1996	03/31/1996
Linda Gross Theater	336 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011	04/12/1996	06/30/1996

Production Information

Number of performances:	136
Opening date:	January 16, 1996
Closing date:	June 30, 1996

Production Description

VIRGINS AND OTHER MYTHS, covers a lot of emotional territory, finding immediate entry into Colin Martin's autobiographical one-man play, a lacerating look at a gay man's very haphazard coming-out. Donning multiple costumes and voices, Stephens immerses himself in Martin's saga, passionately moving through schoolboy sex, an attempt at suicide, thespian gambits, and a brief football career. But even after Martin discovers sex (and its many abuses), kissing is not in the picture. A career as an expensive call boy doesn't help. Soon he's a sex addict ("There is nothing like the familiarity of a strange body"), but throughout these changes he cannot recall when or how he lost his virginity. When he does recover a memory, cliched breakthrough or not it opens him to "having sex without hurting and hurting without having sex." Now that sex is a choice, he can date and even kiss.

Opening Night Credits

Production Credits

	Person/Company	Credit
	Primary Stages	Producer
	Ted Snowdon	Presenter
	Roy Gabay	Produced in Association

	Colin Martin	Playwright

	Bruce Blair	Director

	Bob Phillips	Set Designer
	Deborah Constantine	Lighting Designer
	Tim Coyle	Sound Designer

	Roy Gabay	General Manager
	Tony Origlio Publicity	Press Representative

	Renee Lutz	Production Stage Manager

Cast

	Actor	Role
	Colin Martin	N/A