Holding the Man

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By Tommy Murphy
from the book by Timothy Conigrave

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​Directed by Bruce Akers

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9 September - 26 September 2026

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Based on Timothy Conigrave’s celebrated memoir of the same name, Holding the Man is a warm and heart-wrenchingly honest story of the love between two boys (Timothy and John) who met at a Melbourne high school in the mid-1970s while Timothy was in a high school production of Romeo and Juliet. This meeting led to a romance that endured for 15 years through the discriminations, the jealousies and the losses.

It’s a funny, sad and celebratory love story about growing up gay in Australia

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Warning: Contains frequent coarse language.

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