Bent is a 1979 play by Martin Sherman. It revolves around the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, and takes place during and after the Night of the Long Knives.

The title of the play refers to the slang word "bent" used in some European countries to refer to homosexuals. When the play was first performed, there was only a small trickle of historical research or even awareness about the Nazi persecution of homosexuals. In some regards, the play helped increase that historical research and education in the 1980s and 1990s.

The play starred Ian McKellen in its original 1979 West-End production, and Richard Gere in its original 1980 Broadway production. In 1989, Sean Mathias directed a revival of the play, performed as a one-night benefit for Stonewall, featuring Ian McKellen, Richard E Grant, Ian Charleson, and Ralph Fiennes. After receiving critical acclaim, Mathias directed a full run in 1990, with Ian McKellen, Paul Rhys, and Christopher Eccleston, which won the City Limits Award for Revival of the Year.

In 1997, Martin Sherman adapted Bent into a film of the same name, which was directed by Sean Mathias.

Plot[link]

Max, a promiscuous gay man in 1930s Berlin, is at odds with his wealthy family because of his homosexuality. One evening, much to the resentment of his boyfriend Rudy, he brings home a handsome Sturmabteilung man. Unfortunately, it is the night that Hitler orders to assassinate the upper echelon of the Sturmabteilung corps, to consolidate his power. The Sturmabteilung man is discovered and killed by SS men in Max and Rudy's apartment, and the two have to flee Berlin.

Max's uncle Freddie, who is also gay, but lives a more discreet life with rent boys to satisfy his desires, has organized new papers for Max, but Max refuses to leave his naïve boyfriend behind. As a result, Max and Rudy are found and arrested by the Gestapo and put on a train headed for Dachau concentration camp.

On the train, Rudy calls out to Max as he is taken away to be beaten, so Rudy is brought back and beaten to death by Max who denies he knows him, then Max has intercourse with the body of a dead pre-teen girl to "prove" he is not homosexual. Max has lied to the guards, telling them that he is a Jew rather than a homosexual, because he believes his chances for survival in the camp will be better if he is not assigned the pink triangle.

In the camp, Max makes friends with Horst, who shows him the dignity that lies in acknowledging what one is. They fall in love and become lovers through their imagination and through their words. After Horst is shot by camp guards, Max puts on Horst's jacket with the pink triangle and commits suicide by grabbing an electric fence.

Productions[link]

1980 Broadway[link]

The show was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman, scenery by Santo Loquasto, costumes by Robert Wojewodski, lighting by Arden Fingerhut, and music by Stanley Silverman. The show featured Richard Gere as Max, David Marshall Grant as Rudy, James Remar as Wolf, Michael Gross as Greta, George Hall as Uncle Freddie, Bryan E. Clark as Officer, David Dukes as Horst, Ron Randell as Captain, and the Guards were Kai Wulff, Philip Kraus, and John Snyder.

1981[link]

The show made its Seattle Premier at Empty Space Theater and ran through 1982.^[1]

2000[link]

January 2000 presented by Theater in the Round, Minneapolis, MN ^[2]

2003[link]

July 2003: presented by Singaporean theatre company Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble, directed by Beatrice Chia ^[3]

2006[link]

December 2006: Trafalgar Studios in London, starring Alan Cumming as Max, and Chris New as Horst.

2007[link]

October: produced by the 13th Street Repertory Company in New York City. Directed by Joshua Chase Gold, and starring Ryan Nicholoff as Max and Jim Halloran as Horst, the production was received to strong reviews and sold out audiences.^[4]

October 31-Nov 17: the Meta.for Theatre production at Performance Works in Vancouver, British Columbia, starring Sean Cummings as Max and Thrasso Petras as Horst.^[5][6]

2009[link]

January: Bent was presented in Amarillo TX by AVENUE 10, causing the theatre to be targeted by an anti-homosexual Christian group resulting in the theatre being shut down and forced to find another venue for the show.

March: Bent made its Cincinnati debut at New Stage Collective.

May: Pandora Productions of Louisville, Kentucky.

May: presented at Stanford University by STAMP, the Stanford Theatre Activist Mobilization Project, co-sponsored by the Emma Goldman Society for Queer Liberation.

June 25–30: by Theatre Engine at the Abrams Studio Theatre in Toronto.^[7]

July 9-August 15: produced by Hubris Productions at the Greenhouse Theatre in Chicago, with original music by John Kamys aka Jinx Titanic from July 9 to August 15, 2009. This production was sanctioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a portion of the proceeds from this show benefitted the museum.

September: The Rhodes Drama Department in South Africa presented a revival of the show as a Masters Coursework examination. This production commemorated the play's 30th anniversary.

October 29-November 22: produced by Diversionary Theatre in San Diego, California in collaboration with ion theatre company.

November: Altera Vitae Productions of Canada presented the Montreal premiere in November 2009 at L'Espace 4001. Directed by Carolyn Fe, the cast included: Christopher Moore (Max), Adam Leblanc (Rudy), Vance de Waele (Horst), Serge Turcotte (Greta), Mark Waters (Uncle Freddie), Yves Jacquier (Captain).

November: produced by Fullerton College's theatre arts department.

2010[link]

February–March: Focus Theatre presented a revival of Bent at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney as part of the Mardi Gras festival.

March 25: Cardinal Heenan Drama [Garlen Saldanha & Sean Hutchings] perform "Bent" In Knotty Ash Hall, Liverpool.

March: Oxford University students presented an amateur production of the show in the Keble O'Reilly Theatre.

April 27 - May 15 - Bent was performed at The Landor Theatre, London directed by Andrew Keates. Andrew Keates is the youngest director to be granted the professional rights by Martin Sherman himself to direct the play. The production was such a success, that it transferred to The Tabard Theatre, Chiswick for a further six weeks.

May 7–8: an amateur production will be presented at The Questors Theatre in Ealing, London.

May 6–16: at the Lowry Theatre in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Bent will be produced by the Actor's Theatre of Minnesota.

May 26: Kidbrooke School and Specialist Arts College, London, A-level Showcase.

June 4–13: at the Rivoli Theater in South Fallsburg, New York. "Bent" was produced by the Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop and directed by Constance S. Slater. The production starred Matt Meinsen as Max, Rich Hotaling as Horst, and Jim Pillmeier as Rudy and went on to receive 4 acting awards from The Theater Association of New York State. In addition it was recognized as the drama of the year by the Times Herald Record. The production was a gift from the Arthur A. Slater Memorial Fund.

July 6 - August 8: at the Tabard Theatre following from a production at the Landor Theatre in May.

September 3 - October 9: Long Beach Shakespeare Company, Long Beach, CA, directed by Denis McCourt, MFA.^[8]

October 8-October 16 Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD directed by Linda McCulloch

2011[link]

March; The University of Kent. The Columbia Entertainment Company, a community theatre in Columbia, Missouri.

April; El Centro College, Dallas Texas. Directed by Daniel Scott Cates. The show starred Patrick Patterson-Caroll, Benjamin Webster, Bruce Roe, Meg Hargis, Gerrardo Zubiri, Dean Armstrong and Justin Darnell.

2012[link]

March 15–17: UEA (University of East Anglia) Studio, Norwich. Produced by the Minotaur Theatre Company. Directed by Michael Liam Dolan. Starring Tom Wingfield as Max, Jonathan Moss as Horst, Elliot Hughes as Rudy, Eliot Ruocco-Trenouth as Wolf, Ashley Fullerton as Greta and Josh Allan as Uncle Freddie.

International productions[link]

A production in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opened on September, 2000 starring Alex Benn, Gustavo Ferrari and Gustavo Monje.

A production in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, opened on 2011 starring Augusto Zacchi, Gustavo Rodrigues,Augusto Garcia, Breno Pessurno, Miro Marques, Henrique Pinho, Vinicius Vommaro e Evandro Manchini.

References[link]

The term bent may refer to:

Look up bent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

People[link]

Bent is a Danish male first name, a form of Benedict.

• Bent Larsen, a Danish chess grandmaster
• Bent Mejding, a Danish actor
• Bent Melchior, a Danish rabbi
• Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, a Danish composer

• Bent (surname)

Places[link]

• Bent, Iran, a city in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
• Bent District, an administrative subdivision of Iran
• Bent (Netherlands), a village in the municipality of Rijnwoude, the Netherlands
• Bent County, Colorado, United States
• Bents, Saskatchewan, Canada (Ghost town)

Arts and entertainment[link]

• Bent (play), a 1979 play by Martin Sherman
• Bent (film), a 1997 film by Sean Mathias based on play Bent
• Bent (TV series), an NBC romantic television comedy series
• Bent (band), an electronica duo from England
• Bent (song), a song by Matchbox Twenty
• Bent (magazine)

Science and technology[link]

• Bent molecular geometry
• Bent (unit), a unit of action equal to 1 amp^2 times 1 second
• Bent (structural), a repeated cross-sectional sub-structure of a timber frame
• Bent, past-tense adjective for a bend (guitar)
• Bent, a plant properly named Agrostis capillaris
• Bent, a common name for Marram grass, Ammophila arenaria
• Bent, a structural frame similar to a tower used to support a conveyor gallery, harbor structure or railroad trestle
• Bent, the insignia of the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi
• Bent, a recumbent bicycle. It is popular in the Netherlands and some other countries as a commuters' bike

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Look up Play or play in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Play may refer to:

• Play (activity), enjoyed by animals and humans
• Play (theatre), structured literary form of theatre

Music[link]

Bands[link]

• Play (UK band), on the Survival Records label (1980s)
• Play (Mexican band) (or Grupo Play), Mexican band
• Play (group), Swedish band

Albums[link]

• Play (Brad Paisley album)
• Play (Bond album)
• Play (David Ball album)
• Play (Great Big Sea album)
• Play (Moby album)
• Play (Namie Amuro album)
• Play (Play album), album by the Swedish band
• Play (S.H.E album)
• Play (Squeeze album)

• Plays, an album by Andy Dixon (Secret Mommy)

Songs[link]

• "Play", a song by SS501
• "Play" (David Banner song)
• "Play" (Jennifer Lopez song)
• Play (EP), extended play recording by Ride
• "Play" (Robyn song)

Others[link]

• Play! A Video Game Symphony, a symphony tour featuring video game music
• Play 99.6 (radio), a radio station in Jordan
• Christopher "Play" Martin, one half of hip-hop duo Kid 'n Play

Other arts and entertainment[link]

• Play (New York Times), a sports magazine from The New York Times
• Play (play), written by Samuel Beckett
• Play (TV series), a Canadian news magazine series
• Play (UK magazine), a UK PlayStation magazine
• Play (US magazine), a United States video game magazine
• Play (2005 film), a Chilean film directed by Alicia Scherson
• Play (2009 short film), directed by David Kaplan (filmmaker)
• Play (2011 film), a Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund
• Play, The Videogames World, first European exhibition on videogames
• Television play, television genre
• Wii Play, a video game released for the Wii video game console

In sports[link]

• Play from scrimmage, an organized action as part of the game, in American and Canadian football
• The Play, a controversial and historic last second kickoff return for a touchdown in the 1982 Cal–Stanford 'Big Game'

Other Uses[link]

• Backlash (engineering), the amount of lost motion due to clearance or slackness between mating components when movement is reversed
• Google Play, a digital content service offered by Google
• Play.com, an online retail company
• Petroleum play, group of oil fields or prospects in the same region that are controlled by the same set of geological circumstances
• Play Framework, in computer science, an open source web application framework in Java.
• Play Mobile, a Polish internet provider and mobile operator
• Word play, literary and narrative technique
• Xperia Play, released in 2011, a Android phone capable of running PlayStation games

See also[link]

• Player (disambiguation)

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Bent Persson (born 6 September 1947) is Swedish jazz trumpeter and cornetist, internationally renowned for his renditions on 3 CD:s (and LP:s) of Louis Armstrong's 50 Hot Choruses published for Melrose Brother's in Chicago 1927.

References[link]

• The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz - vol.2, ISBN 978-0-312-11357-5
• Jazz: the essential companion Ian Carr/ Fairweather/ Pristley/ PALADIN ISBN 0-246-12741-4
• Satchmo - The genius of Louis Armstrong/ Gary Giddins/ Da Capo Press 2001
• Bonniers Musiklexikon 2003
• Svensk Jazzhistoria/ Erik Kjellberg 1985

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Amel Bent Bachir
Background information
Born	(1985-06-21) June 21, 1985 (age 27)
Origin	Joué-lès-Tours, France
Genres	Pop, R&B, Adult contemporary
Occupations	Vocalist,
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Sony BMG

Amel Bent (born Amel Bent Bachir Arabic:أمل بنت بشير, on June 21, 1985 in Paris) is a French singer.

Biography[link]

Amel Bent grew up in the French commune of La Courneuve^[1] with her Algerian father and a Moroccan mother. She has a brother and a sister.^[1][2] Her career jump started after making it to the semi-finals of the reality TV show Nouvelle Star 2, France's version of Pop Idol. Although her performance did not make it to the finals, she was still noticed by some of the show's producers, and would end up making her début album later that year, titled: Un Jour d'été, released in late 2004. The album would sell more than 550,000 copies in France alone,^[3] but the success of the album would ultimately be derived from the single, "Ma Philosophie", which would sell at more than 500,000 copies, staying at the No.1 slot, in France, for more than 6 weeks during and after sales.

Amel Bent at the TF1 concert for Tolerance in Yasmine Hammamet in Tunisia.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

¹ French Digital Charts
² Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart

Singles[link]

¹ French Digital Charts
² Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart

Notes[link]

Sources[link]

• http://www.last.fm/music/Amel+Bent
• http://influence.over-blog.com/article-10167534.html

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Amel Bent

• (French) Official website
• Amel Bent Ma Philosophie + Lyrics
• Official MySpace
• (French) Interview with Amel Bent on SoulRnB.com (13/12/10)