Take Me Out
Take Me Out Author: Richard Greenberg
First Performance: 2002, New York
Published: 2003
Genre: Tragicom. in 3 acts; English with some Spanish and Japanese
Setting: Baseball clubhouse and other locations, New York, late 20th c.
Cast: 12m
Darren Lemming, son of a white father and black mother, superstar of the New York Empire baseball team, announces that he is gay. The Skipper and the most intelligent team member Kippy Sunderstrom are quite accepting of Darren's ‘coming out’. Others are less supportive, their response ranging from the nervous to the hostile. Mason Marzac, Darren's business manager and himself a gay, regards baseball as ‘a perfect metaphor for hope in a democratic society.…Everyone is given exactly the same chance.’ As the team struggles to win, a brilliant new pitcher is brought in:...
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