Bed Play (2022)
Bed Play is a play that revolves around one main prop: a bed. It follows the intimate lives of four transgender and/or queer individuals learning how to navigate sex, dating and friendships. The play moves through scenes and soliloquies entirely in slam poetry and rhyme. It embodies the power of LGBTQ+ sexual liberation and expresses the pains and pleasures of modern queer love.
Winner of “Best New Play”, “Best Direction of a Play” and “Best Play” in the 2022 BroadwayWorld Indianapolis Regional Awards
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REVIEWS OF “BED PLAY”
"Written entirely in rhyme, the play celebrates intimacy, love and sex, which Steiman said are narratives often exclusionary of queer people."
"Oftentimes, we see the pains ... or it's centered around that person being queer and that’s their struggle,” Steiman said, "whereas this dives deeper into that and shows what it’s really like to just be queer and live your life." - IndyStarRead full review from the IndyStar here
"The originality of poet-playwright-screenwriter Steiman’s 90-minute play is striking. It’s written, often ingeniously, in slam poetry and rhyme, devices that emulate The Bard." - On the Isle with Tom Alverez
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"The versatile verses are a marvel unto themselves, as intriguing and probing as the relationships, and kept up throughout. At moments it is comparable to Eminem or Miranda, or even Shakespeare’s sonnets, but better to just say it’s Steiman’s brave genius at work." - Plays with John and Wendy
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