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THE COWARDS: A MARVELOUSLY QUEER NEW COMEDY
Written by Ryan O’Connor
Directed by Michael Wilson
Two-time Tony Award-winning producers Martian Entertainment (Carl D. White and Gregory Rae) and Graham Wetterhahn are developing the new play, The Cowards: A Marvelously Queer New Comedy, written by playwright/actor Ryan O’Connor, directed by Michael Wilson (Broadway: The Trip to Bountiful, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Dividing the Estate), and eyeing Broadway for an upcoming season.
The Cowards, O’Connor’s first full-length play, is a modern take on Noël Coward’s classic hit comedy Hay Fever. In this unapologetically queer version, the four members of a dysfunctional chosen family unit, The Cowards, have each invited a surprise guest to their Provincetown, Massachusetts home for the weekend. What ensues is a biting, wicked comedy in which a batch of wildly unpleasant people make for uproarious entertainment.
The Cowards was originally presented in 2023 by After Hours Theatre Company (Graham Wetterhahn, Founder and Producing Artistic Director), and the Los Angeles LGBT Center.