When Timothy Conigrave falls in love with the captain of the football team, John Caleo, at their Catholic all-boys school in Melbourne, the two embark on a passionate journey of love, betrayal and forgiveness. This bestselling true story is at once sexy, romantic, funny and sad - a masterpiece of authentic emotion that you won't forget.
Now an international hit play by Tommy Murphy (who also wrote the Afterword for the US and Canadian book edition) the stage adaption makes its North American premier at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center on September 21, 2007, proving that Holding the Man is a book for all readers, for all generations.
