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Big gay theatre: Orton

methylsalicylate

10:02 / 06.07.01

As there've been grumblings about the lack of theatre threads...

I've been to see 5 Joe Orton plays this year, of varying quality and length (Loot, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Funeral Games, The Ruffian on the Stair, What the Butler Saw).

Excellent stuff. The homoeroticism and classical allusions all come out so much better played than on the page.

Sooooo... seen any Big Gay Theatre lately? Whadja think?

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:08 / 06.07.01

Orton is fabulous stuff, and I think really needs to be seen, especially to get the eroticism.

Curious, where did you see Entertaining Mr.Sloane? Was this recent?

Big gay theatre? think one of my favourites has got to be Jonathan Harvey, Hushabye Mountain.

He probably wouldn't really thank me for labelling him as such, he writes really well about love, sex and intimacy from a variety of perspectives, as well as other subjects, a recent play, Guiding Star (haven't seen) is about the Hillsborough disaster.

But it's H.M's treatment of all kinds of issues around AIDS and intimacy with a great deal of humour that I really like.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

14:21 / 06.07.01

I am currently working in Big Gay Theatre.

I am stage managing a play where I am the only female in the production: all the actors (with one exception) are gay, and this includes the producer and the director.

We're staging Mart Crowley's play, The Boys in the Band.

And it's fucking disorganized and I am about to lose my shit. And I have rehearsal on the day we open at 2:30 because we are so disorganized.

CorvusB

14:48 / 06.07.01

I was in a production of What the Butler Saw many years ago, that was directed and acted entirely by straight people (I was not out yet), and it was so off the mark, it was embarrassing.

Big Gay Theatre: Hedwig, and the Angry Inch. Wow. Fuckin' WOW! No story, really, just a very moving piece of theatre disguised as a rock show. (see my rant on the "Theatre: Dead?" thread)

pantone 292

19:27 / 06.07.01

If anyone sees any Split Britches productions coming soon *please* post them. Peggy Shaw is one of the most gorgeous moving things on the planet's surface. She does masculinities *so well* wiping the floor with every half-baked 'drag king' effort on account of her deployment of performance skills, wit and irony...

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