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First produced by Griffin Theatre Company at SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney, 9 November - 16 December 2006.
Director: David Berthold.
Designer: Brian Thomson.
Lighting Designer: Stephen Hawker.
Sound Designer: Basil Hogios.
Costume Designer: Michael Agosta.
Cast: Jeanette Cronin, Nicholas Eadie, Guy Edmonds, Robin McLeavy, Brett Stiller, and Matt Zeremes.
Return season at Griffin Theatre Company from 8 February to 3 March 2007.
Cast and crew as above.
Produced at Trafalgar Studios, London, 4 May - 3 July 2010.
Director: David Berthold.
Produced at La Boite, in partnership with Philip Bacon Galleries and Wrightson Stewart, 16 February to 16 March 2013.
Director: David Berthold.
Designer: Brian Thomson.
Costumes and Puppets: Micka Agosta.
Lighting Designer: David Walters.
Composer and Sound Designer: Basil Hogios.
Cast: Eugene Gilfedder, Jai Higgs, Helen Howard, Lauren Jackson, Jerome Meyer, and Alec Snow.
Performed at Belvior Street's Upstairs Theatre : 9 March - 14 April 2024
Director: Eamon Flack.
Cast: Danny Ball, Tom Conroy, Guy Simon, Russell Dysktra, Rebecca Massey, and Shannen Alyce Quan.
Costume Designer: Mel Page.
Presented as part of La Boite Encores (a play-reading series revisiting La Boite's centenary by returning to plays from the archives), La Boite Theatre, 16 June 2025.
Holding the Man
Melbourne
:
McPhee Gribble
,
1995
Z551412
1995
single work
autobiography
'The mid-seventies - and satin baggies and chunky platforms reigned supreme. Jethro Tull did battle with glam-rock for the airwaves. At an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne Timothy Conigrave fell wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So began a relationship that was to last for fifteen years, a love affair that weathered disapproval, separation and, ultimately, death. Holding the Man recreates that relationship. With honesty and insight it explore the highs and lows of any partnership: the intimacy, constraints, temptations. And the strength of heart both men had to find when they tested positive to HIV.' (Publisher's blurb)
Remembering the Man
( dir. Nick Bird
et. al. )agent
2015
9234059
2015
single work
film/TV
'At an exclusive Catholic boys school in Melbourne 1976, Tim Conigrave and John Caleo fell madly in love. Their passionate, tempestuous, operatic romance lasted for 16 years, facing disapproval, temptation, separation, and the looming shadow of the Grim Reaper. Their relationship has been immortalised in Conigrave's posthumous autobiography Holding the Man (now a major Australian film directed by Neil Armfield). This is the true story of how Romeo met Romeo and how first love can not only last but endure.' (Source: Screen Australia website)
'Walking through Chippendale on my way to Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre, where this production of Holding the Man is playing, I pass by the York Theatre. This was the theatre where, in 1985, Timothy Conigrave, author of the original memoir upon which the play is based, was rehearsing a touring show of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. He had to excuse himself from one rehearsal for an appointment where he learned his HIV-positive diagnosis.' (Introduction)
'Thirty years after Holding the Man author Timothy Conigrave died, Belvoir St theatre’s artistic director is bringing back the play adapted from the book – with his partner in the lead role'
