THIEVING BOY/LIKE STARS IN MY HANDS

Two short award-winning plays by the writer whose iconic memoir, HOLDING THE MAN, has become one of the most successful love stories in Australian publishing history. Tim Conigrave’s plays deal with those matters that need to be resolved at the time of death: your own or someone else’s. As his father lies dying in bed, Moxy must assess not only where his troubled youth has taken him in the past, but in what direction life will lead him. On the other hand, Simon, facing his own death, takes charge of not only his own life, but that of his lover Marcello. Both plays are refreshing and uplifting as they are moving: funny, sad and celebratory stories of the power of love, sex and friendship. “Deeply affecting…. unflinchingly honest” – The Australian “Harrowing, beautiful and gut wrenching affecting… - Herald Sun