It’s easy to look back with frustration at such a time, but Candy director Neil Armfield, once again tackles a divisive subject with compassion and relevance. The film is based on the novel and eventual play written by Conigrave himself, making for a strikingly personal account of a tragic time when many failed to understand same sex relationships, and those in the relationships were unaware of a devastating disease. The two start up a relationship, and the film chronicles their lives through the 1980s as they fight prejudice and AIDS.

Holding The Man is the true story of Timothy Conigrave ( Ryan Corr ), a young gay Australian man in the 1970s who falls for fellow pupil John Caleo ( Craig Stott ). Purchase tickets here.Pin Holding The Man review: This adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s memoirs is striking, but is it as powerful as 20 years ago? Holding The Man review When: Running from 22 March to 1 April 2023Ĭost: Preview on 22 March $35.00 |Adult $42.00 | Concession & Groups 8+ $36.00 | Under 30 $30.00 | FIBD (First In Best Dressed – 10 x tickets per regular performance) $25.00. This account of a 15-year relationship that weathered disapproval, separation, temptation and ultimately death is a story, and a celebration, that speaks across generations, sexual preferences and cultures. Those who loved the book will find that this adaptation by Tommy Murphy transfers every ounce of honesty, humour and heart-wrenching irony to the stage.

Still, despite the odds, Tim and John become close and for fifteen years their relationship survives everything life throws at it – the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can’t solve turns up to part them.įor many Australians, Tim Conigrave’s best selling memoir about his fifteen-year relationship with John Caleo captured better than any book of the period what it was like being young and gay during the eighties AIDS crisis. The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you were gay in an all-male school in 1970s Melbourne with a crush on the captain of the football team. Image: ACT Hub.īased on the book by Timothy Conigrave, Directed by Jarrad West.Įveryman Theatre, producers of last year’s critically acclaimed productions of Hand to God and Beautiful Thing are thrilled to be presenting as the first show in ACT Hub’s 2023 season – the funny, heartbreaking and true story of Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo. Holding The Man By Tommy Murphy running from 22 March to 1 April.

Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave