'217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous' confronts the little-known gay psychiatrist whose early 1970s activism profoundly advanced LGBTQ civil rights.
“The Canadians,” the latest by endlessly inventive playwright Adam Bock , receives its world premiere in Costa Mesa.Three-time Obie winner Gordon reflects on this story in a work of documentary theater that’s filtered through the imagination of a writer and director less interested in Wikipedia bullet points than in thematic connections and emotional crosscurrents.
First up is Alfred A. Gross , who, as an executive secretary for a charity in New York, primarily assisted homosexual men “in trouble with the law.” He introduces himself to all the modern “dear ones” who have gathered to learn about this curious chapter of gay history before qualifying that, in the closeted era in which he colorfully emerged, he was a “warrior behind the drapes.”
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