“Holding the Man” play at Matrix Theatre

The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you are a gay boy in an all-boys school in 1970s Melbourne with a crush on the captain of the football team. Despite the odds, Tim and John fall in love and for fifteen years their relationship survives everything life throws at it — the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses — until the only problem love can’t solve threatens to part them. ‘Holding the Man’ performances May 10- June 29.  Thursday through Sunday with previews May 8 and 9.  Thursday-Saturday showings at 8 p.m. and Sunday showings at 3 p.m.  Tickets, $34.99, available online.