London on 05 Aug - 20:45
Riot Act is a powerful brand new verbatim theatre piece created especially for the Queer Season. You know whats strange, I felt safer on the night of the riots, on the sidewalk in front of Stonewall, than I did in my own home town. Im a drag queen. I want to live. I want to survive. As an older person, Im sixty five now, I couldnt give a f*cking shit. In London, the idea of safe sex was; dont sleep with Americans. James was older; a mature student. He was twenty two years old when he died. Playwright and performer Alexis Gregory interviewed one of the only remaining Stonewall survivors, radical-drag icon Lavinia Co-Op and prominent 1990s London ACT UP AIDS activist Paul Burston and in this solo theatre piece, channels sex decades of queer history. Hard-hitting, provocative, tender, truthful, funny, political and personal, these are stories of queerness, activism, addiction, sex, drag, community, conflict, youth, ageing, fierce queens and a Hollywood diva. Riot Act is the follow up piece to Gregorys recent critically acclaimed sell-out run of Sex / Crime (The Glory). His previous work includes Slap (Stratford East / Channel 4 / Concrete in Shoreditch) and Safe (Soho Theatre / London Theatre Workshop / Norwich Theatre Royal). He presents Riot Act in association with Team Angelica.
Tickets : £ 16 Tickets
Address : King's Head Theatre
115 Upper St, Islington
London
N1 1QN
Telephone : 0207 226 8561
Website : Click Here
- Adrienne Rich 16 May 1929 - Poet/American
- Anette Trettebergstuen 25 May 1981 - Politician/Norwegian
- Anika Moa 21 May 1980 - Singer/New Zealander
- Beatrice Lillie 29 May 1894 - Actress & Singer/American
- Caitlin Stassy 01 May 1990 - Actor & Singer/Australian
- Charice Pempengco 10 May 1992 - Singer/Filipino
- Clare Teal 14 May 1973 - Jazz Musician & Singer/British
- Corine Mauch 28 May 1960 - Politician & Mayor of Zurich/Swiss
- Guinevere Turner 23 May 1968 - Actor & Screenwriter/American
- Jill Johnston 17 May 1929 - Author/British
- Kathleen Wynne 21 May 1953 - Politician/Canadian
- Laverne Cox 29 May 1984 - Actress & TV personality & LGBT Advocate/American
- Marijane Meaker 27 May 1927- Novelist aka Vin Packer/Ann Aldrich/American
- Mathilde de Morny 26 May 1863 - Noblewoman & Artist/French
- Melissa Etheridge 29 May 1961 - Singer-Songwriter/American
- Sally Ride 26 May 1951 - Astronaut & Physicist/American
- Sandi Toksvig 03 May 1958 - Comedian &Writer/Danish & British
- Sarah Outen 26 May 1985 - Ocean Rower/British
- Ulrike Lunacek 26 May 1957 - Politician & VP of European Parliament/Austrian