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A true story of sexuality, spirituality and the mystery of human experience, THE TRICKY PART is an extraordinary new play written and performed by Martin Moran. Between the ages of 12 and 15, Moran had a sexual relationship with an older man, a counselor named Bob whom he’d met at a Catholic boys’ camp. At age 42 he set out to find this man and to confront his past. Moran has transformed his story into a riveting, often funny and always surprising journey through the complexities of Catholicism, desire and human trespass.

Moran grew up in Denver, a Catholic schoolboy who found joy in art, music and the rituals of the Church. Catholicism was not only refuge and solace, however; the “Catholic code,” replete with stories of saints and martyrs, was filled with the fraught mysteries of the spirit and the flesh.

Moran narrates the play from the perspective of his adult self, but the events of his childhood unfold with startling clarity. Ben Brantley wrote in the New York Times that the play “vibrates with the vertigo that descends when past and present coexist.” When standing before his abuser at long last Moran struggles to grasp the man as perpetrator, friend, enemy, lover. “Definitions fail,” he explains, “bleed one into the other.” Told with candor and disarming humor, THE TRICKY PART carries us to the heart of a paradox — that anguish, that which we think of as “damage”, may be the very thing that gives rise to transformation, even grace.

This complexity is what makes this story such a shattering and, in its 80-minute span, deeply restorative work of art. The play offers no easy balm, does not diminish the truth of the abuse he endured. But in its honesty, immediacy, laughter and depth of feeling, as Moran shares the story that will not let him go, THE TRICKY PART embraces all of us.

The New York premiere of THE TRICKY PART, developed at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, received rave reviews, a 2004 OBIE Award and two Drama Desk nominations. It will be published this year as a play by Dramatists Play Service and a full-length memoir, entitled The THE TRICKY PART: ONE BOY`S FALL FROM TRESPASS INTO GRACE, by Beacon Press.

Writing about THE TRICKY PART , Kathryn Harrison, author of the memoir THE KISS, wrote these words: “Those of us — and we are legion — whose innocence has not been lost so much as taken, have a choice. We can remain children and insist on a black and white vision of perpetrators and victims, or, like Martin Moran, we can grow up. We can arrive at the understanding that love is only as pure, or as whole, or as beautiful, as the always imperfect beings who offer and demand it. THE TRICKY PART is a story of sexual abuse and its seemingly endless half life — remarkable, then, that this isn`t a book about blame, but forgiveness.”

REVIEWS & PREVIEWS

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Aisle Say Review by Jerry Kraft Saturday, July 30, 2005 ...marvelous show... (read article) Seattle Weekly Review by Steve Wiecking Wednesday, July 27, 2005 show begins to tug at your insides in ways you couldn't have expected (read article) Talkin' Broadway Review by David Edward-Hughes Wednesday, July 27, 2005 rich good humor and a warm heart (read article) Seattle Post-Intelligencer Review by Joe Adcock Wednesday, July 27, 2005 'Tricky Part' is moving and inspiring (read article) Seattle Times Review by Misha Berson Friday, July 15, 2005 Raw subject, complex feelings in "Tricky Part" (read article) The Stranger (Stranger suggests) Review by David Schmader Friday, July 15, 2005 Martin Moran brings his acclaimed solo play The Tricky Part to Intiman (read article)

average rating: - from 1 reviewer Read complete reviews Write a review Saturday 23 July 2005: The Tricky Part at Intiman Actor Martin Moran has written a monologue about growing up with a secret (he was sexually moleste ... -Joseph E Boling July 24, 2005, 4:59 am

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  Friday, July 15, 2005 from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm
  Saturday, July 16, 2005 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
  Saturday, July 16, 2005 from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm
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  Saturday, August 13, 2005 from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm

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