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A young soldier returning from the trenches of the First World War recollects a love that dares not speak its name. Almost one hundred years later, a groom-to-be prepares for his gay wedding.
Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight individuals.
Poignant and personal, funny, tragic and riotous, these eight monologues for male and female performers cover major events-such as the Wolfenden Report of 1957, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the debate over the age of consent-through deeply affecting and personal rites-of-passage stories.
Curated by Mark Gatiss, the monologues were commissioned to commemorate the anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalized private homosexual acts between two men over the age of twenty-one. They were originally aired on BBC Four in 2017, directed and produced by Gatiss, and featured a cast including Alan Cumming, Rebecca Front, Ian Gelder, Kadiff Kirwan, Russell Tovey, Gemma Whelan, Ben Whishaw, and Fionn Whitehead. These monologues were also performed at The Old Vic in London.
This volume contains the following monologues:
"The Man on the Platform" by Mark Gatiss
"The Perfect Gentleman" by Jackie Clune
"Safest Spot in Town" by Keith Jarrett
"Missing Alice" by Jon Bradfield
"I Miss the War" by Matthew Baldwin
"More Anger" by Brian Fillis
"A Grand Day Out" by Michael Dennis
"Something Borrowed" by Gareth McLean
Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight individuals.
Poignant and personal, funny, tragic and riotous, these eight monologues for male and female performers cover major events-such as the Wolfenden Report of 1957, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the debate over the age of consent-through deeply affecting and personal rites-of-passage stories.
Curated by Mark Gatiss, the monologues were commissioned to commemorate the anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalized private homosexual acts between two men over the age of twenty-one. They were originally aired on BBC Four in 2017, directed and produced by Gatiss, and featured a cast including Alan Cumming, Rebecca Front, Ian Gelder, Kadiff Kirwan, Russell Tovey, Gemma Whelan, Ben Whishaw, and Fionn Whitehead. These monologues were also performed at The Old Vic in London.
This volume contains the following monologues:
"The Man on the Platform" by Mark Gatiss
"The Perfect Gentleman" by Jackie Clune
"Safest Spot in Town" by Keith Jarrett
"Missing Alice" by Jon Bradfield
"I Miss the War" by Matthew Baldwin
"More Anger" by Brian Fillis
"A Grand Day Out" by Michael Dennis
"Something Borrowed" by Gareth McLean
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Reviews
"'Sits triumphantly in the tradition of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads: funny, poignant and closely observed'"
The Times
"'An unbeatable series of monologues - funny, filthy, mournful, celebratory, predatory, bathetic, heroic - of the travails and, yes, fun had in the days before this particular love could speak its name'"
Guardian