Others said yes but wanted a delayed release some years down the road. A few said no, they didn't ever want their material in the archives available for public scrutiny. Some gave permission without any reservation at all. About five or six years ago I was approached by a university archives in Wisconsin to acquire the original Farm Boys research material, interview recordings and transcripts, so I had to get the subjects' permission. SEVEN DAYS: Do the original subjects of Farm Boys know there are stage adaptations of their stories? Seven Days interviewed Fellows and Zak separately by phone from their homes in Milwaukee and Chicago, respectively. When asked about the likelihood of a lesbian sequel - Farm Girls, perhaps? - Zak could say only, "It's in the works." During a recent meeting with Fountain, Zak - who's been coming to Vermont every summer since the seventh grade - asked her, "What play do you think Vermonters would want to see?" Though Zak nixed Fountain's first idea about gay divorce - "In Illinois, we're still celebrating gay marriage!" he says - he was intrigued by her other idea of portraying life in rural gay America. The impetus for this version of Farm Boys came from Kim Fountain, executive director of the RU12? Community Center in Burlington. "I love the idea of a stage production that does the same thing," he says. This time, Zak tried to cleave closer to Fellows' original aim of providing a forum for these men to speak in their own voices.
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That version was loosely based on characters from Fellows' book and created a fictional storyline. This will be the second stage adaptation of Farm Boys, albeit a very different one from the first, which was written by Dean Gray and Amy Fox and performed in New York City, St. Zak attended college in Jacksonville, Ill., "which is definitely farm country, so I can relate to some of these stories Will collected," he says. A self-described city boy, he grew up in Lisle, Ill., just outside Chicago. Zak, 59, is executive director of the Chicago nonprofit Pride Films and Plays and has won seven Jeff Awards. Adapted for the stage by Chicago-based playwright David Zak, Farm Boys will feature an entirely Vermont-based cast.
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Later this month, a theatrical version of Farm Boys will be performed as part of the Vermont Pride Theater Summer Festival at the Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph.
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Despite stories that have many dark themes in common - personal anguish, social alienation, violence, religious conservatism, sexual puritanism and rigid gender stereotypes - many of these men still felt a deep connection to their agrarian roots.
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The outcome of Fellows' interviews was his 1996 book Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men From the Rural Midwest, a compilation of 36 personal narratives of gay men, most of whom had abandoned rural living. Fellows, himself a gay man raised on a Wisconsin dairy farm, knew that many males like himself, who'd subsequently fled to larger metropolitan areas, felt like outsiders among their urban counterparts.įellows' goal was to give voice to the experiences of rural gay men who were typically overlooked or ignored by gay urban culture - or else, as he wrote, simultaneously stereotyped and romanticized as wholesome and virile "country bumpkins with rosy cheeks, ready to be plucked if they venture into the big city." In the spring of 1992, Milwaukee writer Will Fellows began interviewing 75 gay men, ages 25 to 84, who'd grown up in farm families throughout the Midwest.