RADICAL REDISCOVERY II: HOMOSEXUAL ACTS AND BEYOND – EXHIBITION
RADICAL REDISCOVERY II: HOMOSEXUAL ACTS AND BEYOND
An ambitious new archival exhibition, celebrating fifty years of LGBTQ+ alternative theatre in the UK.
THURSDAY 6th NOV – SUN 14th DEC
Open Fridays to Sunday 12- 5
London Performance Studios
Penarth Street
London SE15 1TR
The programme marks 50 years since Homosexual Acts, the first Gay Theatre Season in Britain that took place at the Almost Free Theatre in 1975. It shares an array of materials from the Unfinished Histories archive alongside other sources, and is curated by its director and co-founder Dr. Susan Croft.
The exhibition charts the growth of the movement in London and elsewhere, from street theatre created by activists in the Gay Liberation Front to touring Gay Sweatshop plays that changed the lives of audiences in isolated communities, and from the radical drag work of Bloolips and the lesbian camp of Hard Corps and Parker and Klein, to the advent of Black lesbian, gay and queer work in the late 80s.
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