Tea and Sympathy (play)
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Tea and Sympathy (play)
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Tea and Sympathy is a 1953 stage play in three acts by Robert Anderson about a male private school student, Tom Lee, who faces accusations of homosexuality. A woman, Laura, who is married to an instructor, opposes the students' shaming of Lee and romantically pursues him so he can prove that he has a masculine character. The title refers to what someone in Laura's position was supposed to offer a boy such as Tom. Everett Evans of the Houston Chronicle called it "one of the first plays to tackle
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1953 play by Robert Anderson
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_and_Sympathy_(play)
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