Gay Theatre in London.
Beaker (Ben Whitehouse)
There is a one night only performance of four short plays about living
in a dangerous world.
It's been organised by Amnesty International and the AIUK GLBT Network.
It's called 'Disparate Bodies' and is written by awardwinning playwright
Linda Wilkinson.
In Italy Contessa Francesca Conti has it all; riches, power, position.
So why does she feed young men drugs and abuse them shamelessly in a
circus of hate??
It's legal to be a lesbian in Prague, or a transsesual in Istanbul,
completely legal....
Yet Anna remembers when sex-changes were forced on her friends and Leila
know the scent of burning apartments and the feel of rubber hoses on her
flesh....
It's a unique and challenging evening of theatre in support of AIUK's
"Get Up! Sign Up!" campaign for the 50th Anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
It's happening on SUNDAY MAY 10TH @ 7.30 pm.
The Albery Theatre,
St Martins Lane,
London WC2.
Box Office 0171 369 1730.
Tickets are £25, £15 and £10.
Go along and support a good cause!
Ben. xxx
bad...@void.demon.co.uk
On Thu, 07 May 1998 09:42:02 +0100, "Beaker (Ben Whitehouse)"
<bj...@ukc.ac.uk> delighted us by writing this:
Well, should this be the first group theatre outing?
Vicky
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candle at both ends - tell me where to get more wax!
Matthew Malthouse
In article <894561139.6212.1...@news.demon.co.uk>,
bad...@void.demon.co.uk wrote:
} 'Disparate Bodies'
} >It's happening on SUNDAY MAY 10TH @ 7.30 pm.
} >The Albery Theatre, St Martins Lane, London WC2.
} >
} >Box Office 0171 369 1730. Tickets are £25, £15 and £10.
}
} Well, should this be the first group theatre outing?
} Vicky
I'm for it.
Matthew
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### matthew....@guardian.co.uk (Matthew Malthouse) wrote:
>In article <894561139.6212.1...@news.demon.co.uk>,
>bad...@void.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
>} 'Disparate Bodies'
>} >It's happening on SUNDAY MAY 10TH @ 7.30 pm.
>} >The Albery Theatre, St Martins Lane, London WC2.
>} >
>} >Box Office 0171 369 1730. Tickets are £25, £15 and £10.
>}
>} Well, should this be the first group theatre outing?
>} Vicky
>
>I'm for it.
So am I. This'll be after me and Phil have sauntered around the
Poster Art exhibition at the V&A. See? People may say I'm not
cultured, but they'd be wrong. And I don't even have Chris with me to
tell me where to go.
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Chris Heathcote
On Thu, 07 May 1998 21:16:44 GMT, adr...@ah.win-uk.net (THE Adrian)
wrote:
>This'll be after me and Phil have sauntered around the
>Poster Art exhibition at the V&A. See? People may say I'm not
>cultured, but they'd be wrong. And I don't even have Chris with me to
>tell me where to go.
Heh, we're going to the Hayward on the 17th.
Chris.
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bad...@void.demon.co.uk
>### matthew....@guardian.co.uk (Matthew Malthouse) wrote:
>
>>In article <894561139.6212.1...@news.demon.co.uk>,
>>bad...@void.demon.co.uk wrote:
>>
>>} 'Disparate Bodies'
>>} >It's happening on SUNDAY MAY 10TH @ 7.30 pm.
>>} >The Albery Theatre, St Martins Lane, London WC2.
>>} >
>>} >Box Office 0171 369 1730. Tickets are £25, £15 and £10.
>>}
>>} Well, should this be the first group theatre outing?
>>} Vicky
>>
>>I'm for it.
>
>So am I. This'll be after me and Phil have sauntered around the
>Poster Art exhibition at the V&A. See? People may say I'm not
>cultured, but they'd be wrong. And I don't even have Chris with me to
>tell me where to go.
>--
>Currently playing: "Homeboy" by Tom Wax & Jans Jens Freidrich
>_____________________________________________________________________________
>Adrian Hadayah 0973 560076 (UK) PeaceLoveUnityRespect
That makes 4 with matt. So who gets the tickets?
Matthew Malthouse
In article <894583145.448.0....@news.demon.co.uk>,
bad...@void.demon.co.uk wrote:
} That makes 4 with matt. So who gets the tickets?
} Vicky
The credit carded need to sort that one, I haven't got a card so can't do
'phone bookings.
David Guy
Count me in too.
I work near Euston so could be persuaded to drop in if no-one
wants to make a phone booking with credit card.
David
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THE Adrian
### adr...@ah.win-uk.net (THE Adrian) wrote:
>So am I. This'll be after me and Phil have sauntered around the
>Poster Art exhibition at the V&A. See? People may say I'm not
>cultured, but they'd be wrong. And I don't even have Chris with me to
>tell me where to go.
I also have 4 free tickets to Selfridges' "Elle Decoration" day
running from 12-6pm on this Sunday. Apart from the yummy 10% off all
homeware (nothing off any other department unfortunately. They have
some good clothes), there's also a free drink (likely to be a Pimms
unfortunately) and free goodie bag. Probably a copy of Elle
Decoration
Chris Heathcote
On Fri, 08 May 1998 17:35:56 GMT, adr...@ah.win-uk.net (THE Adrian)
wrote:
>I also have 4 free tickets to Selfridges' "Elle Decoration" day
>running from 12-6pm on this Sunday.
Ah the benefits of a QueerCard....
c.
Beaker (Ben Whitehouse)
Wow. You guys have to tell me what it's like. I'm so jealous!!!
Ben. xxx
JohnM
In article <3552ED...@ucl.ac.uk>, David Guy <cca...@ucl.ac.uk>
writes
>bad...@void.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
>> That makes 4 with matt. So who gets the tickets?
>> Vicky
>
>Count me in too.
>
>I work near Euston so could be persuaded to drop in if no-one
>wants to make a phone booking with credit card.
>
David !
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bad...@void.demon.co.uk
>>>} 'Disparate Bodies'
>>>} >It's happening on SUNDAY MAY 10TH @ 7.30 pm.
>>>} >The Albery Theatre, St Martins Lane, London WC2.
>>>} >
>
It was excellent and I enjoyed the evening very much.
Lets do it again soon.
Future outing could be to the Almeida perhaps. The Doctor's Dilemma -
GBS - begins on 28th May. I like Shaw and this is one I have never
seen. Tickets £6.50 - £19-50 and all seats at the Almeida are good.
Also in summer it is very pleasant there. Outdoor courtyard....luvvies
sipping white wine :)
The Pirate Jenny url is http://www.commex.org/jenny/
That is monthly so see if anyone fancies June.
Vicky
*******
If you're feeling salty, then I'm your tequila.
If you've got the freedom, Lord, I've got the time.
There ain't nothing sweeter than naked emotion
So you show me yours, hun, and I'll show you mine.
Philip Pearson
Vicky:
> >>>} 'Disparate Bodies'
> >>>} >It's happening on SUNDAY MAY 10TH @ 7.30 pm.
> >>>} >The Albery Theatre, St Martins Lane, London WC2.
> >>>} >
> >
>
> It was excellent and I enjoyed the evening very much.
>
Clearly they put a lot of effort into it.
Phil
Matthew Malthouse
In article <VA.0000004...@westminster.ac.uk>,
Philip Pearson <pear...@westminster.ac.uk> wrote:
The first piece "Let Eating Dogs..." was based on the true story of Melike
Demir, a Turkish Transexual and represented the treatment that transexuals
recieve at the hands of the Istanbul police. The character Leila is being
threatened into selling her flat to a middle aged woman who despises the
transexuals and is not only paying the police to assist her but enjoying
seeing the transexual beaten by them.
The second "Alchemy" was a monlogue for a sinlge women, Anna, a physicist
from Prague telling of how she fell in love with an aparently strait woman
and lamenting that it was only a one night stand. The play ended with a
telephone call indicating that hre feelings were reciprocated and the
affaire had some future.
The third play "Baccarat" told of an english youth Richard, a petty
criminal, arrived at the home of an Italian countess with a letter of
reference. It emerges that she will "employ" him providing room, board,
clothing, money and should he want them drugs for which all he has to di is
fuck, on command, any other member of he menagerie. They argue about
motivations and dignity and he wishes to fuck her, but it ends with him
apparently acepting her terms.
The fourth "Disparate Bodies brings together Leila who had traveled from
Istanbul as a prostitute, Anna who is visiting her lovers home (though her
lover is elsewhere that eveing) and Richard who have all been caught up in
a police raid on a local club. They argue their various motivations and
what had brought them to that cell but come to no conclusion. The the
Contessa enters to pay bail for her boy and shows some interest in the
others. She discusses what she might ask of them to pay their bail too.
Leila is willing to become part of the Contessa's strange household - afetr
all it's be easier and more lucrative that the life of a street walker.
Anna is dismayed and refuses to be tempted. The Contessa offers a mobite
phone to Anna which she is reluctant to use so the Contessa dials and hands
it to Anna who is astonished to find her lover on the other end - it seems
that her lover is the Contessa's daughter. Richard admits to being in love
with the Contessa despite his first mercenary motives, the contessa tells
something of why she takes revenge on men by paying men to bugger each
other - she was raped and brutalised by the American "Lbertaors" at the end
of the 2nd war - and admits that the game palls on her, hinting that she
might genuinely fall for Richard's wode-boy charms. Anna resigns herself to
her strange mother in law and Leila is rather left without a denoument
though it's hinted that the Contessa might help her find "respectable"
work.
Although the fourth act is imensely contrived when described flat and as
unlikely a "happy ending" as any fairy tail the barbed and bitter
conversations between the four protagonists are emotionally laden and all
four go through clasical transformations. Richard's affection and respect
overcome his machismo, Anna shows a libertine streak through her eastern
european imposed prudery and the Contessa finds the ability to relate to
men in terms other than revenge.
Only Leila remains ambiguous and this appears to be a weekness in the
piece. To try and substitute "good woman" for "whore" is to place a
judgement on the prostitute that wouldn't sit too well with the theme of
the piece, nor with the model for the character who was in the audience. So
Leila's transformation is from life of oppression and self repression to
one of liberty and self expression which was difficult to convey in
contrast to the concrete changes visible in the other characters.
Designed specifically for the event the plays gave graphic illustrations of
sexual opression and was succesfull in limited terms. It was at times
powerful but if put on as a running play would probably be deemed
technically flawed and too much of a polemic to appeal to a general
audience.
Matthew not Billington.
Beaker (Ben Whitehouse)
Matthew Malthouse wrote:
<snipped the review>
Wow! That sounded really good. Thanks for going to see it! I'll keep
everyone up to date on stuff that goes on, organised by AIUK.GLBT. If
that's alright with everyone?
> Matthew not Billington.
Thanks again Matthew. :-)
Ben. xxx
(green with envy!)
Mats
Was this a one nighter, or is it still running? Thanks
Mats
Beaker (Ben Whitehouse) wrote in message <355747...@ukc.ac.uk>...
Beaker (Ben Whitehouse)
Mats wrote:
> Was this a one nighter, or is it still running? Thanks
Ben. xxx
JohnM
In article <B17D02A7...@0.0.0.0>, Matthew Malthouse <matthew.malth
ou...@guardian.co.uk> writes
---- snip snip ---
Interesting. Errmm..was there any nudity ?
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Matthew Malthouse
In article <355801...@ukc.ac.uk>,
I forgot to say that Leila was played by Amita Dhiri, late of This Life.
Matthew
Niles
bad...@void.demon.co.uk wrote:
~
~Future outing could be to the Almeida perhaps. The Doctor's Dilemma -
~GBS - begins on 28th May. I like Shaw and this is one I have never
~seen. Tickets £6.50 - £19-50 and all seats at the Almeida are good.
~Also in summer it is very pleasant there. Outdoor courtyard....luvvies
~sipping white wine :)
GBS is on my to do list. I'm next due in London on the 30th. (Well, I'm due
in Reading in the afternoon, and I could always stretch it a little) Will it
be playing on the Saturday, or would you for preference aim for later in the
run? Thing is, any later on, and it gets tricky for me - my exam sesh starts
on the 1st June, finishes on the 10th, and I'm trying to keep this fairly
free. After that, I have to go to Paris for a few days, and thereafter is as
yet undecided, but probably Nottingham based til July.
Hmm. Now you know my schedule. That's more than my mother does :)
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bad...@void.demon.co.uk
On Tue, 12 May 1998 20:49:18 +0100, matthew....@guardian.co.uk
(Matthew Malthouse) delighted us by writing this:
>In article <355801...@ukc.ac.uk>,
>"Beaker (Ben Whitehouse)" <bj...@ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>} Mats wrote:
>} >
>} > Was this a one nighter, or is it still running? Thanks
>}
>} One night only. :-(
>
>I forgot to say that Leila was played by Amita Dhiri, late of This Life.
>
>Matthew
>
Did you say that Nurse Gladys Emanuel played the property dealer who
cheered on the police hurting her?
Vicky - holding out for a hero now. (Please polish armour before applying)
David Guy
Matthew Malthouse wrote:
> I forgot to say that Leila was played by Amita Dhiri,
> late of This Life.
Now why didn't you say that on the phone on Sunday. It might
have persuaded me to miss my bath.
David Guy
bad...@void.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Future outing could be to the Almeida perhaps. The Doctor's Dilemma -
Can I stick a hand up for this one too and I promise this time
I won't be put off by the gardening.
Matthew Malthouse
In article <895010904.14887.0...@news.demon.co.uk>,
bad...@void.demon.co.uk wrote:
} On Tue, 12 May 1998 20:49:18 +0100, matthew....@guardian.co.uk
} (Matthew Malthouse) delighted us by writing this:
}
} >In article <355801...@ukc.ac.uk>,
} >"Beaker (Ben Whitehouse)" <bj...@ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
} >
} >} Mats wrote:
} >} >
} >} > Was this a one nighter, or is it still running? Thanks
} >}
} >} One night only. :-(
} >
} >I forgot to say that Leila was played by Amita Dhiri, late of This Life.
}
} Did you say that Nurse Gladys Emanuel played the property dealer who
} cheered on the police hurting her?
No, I didn't think Lynda Baron that good.
However the torturing policeman, Jimmi Harkishin was appealing and Richard,
Dominic Taylor, downright edible.
Matthew
Who was trying to avoid smut, but couldn't.
Tom Jordaan
On Tue, 12 May 1998 18:30:18 +0100, JohnM <jo...@scroll.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <B17D02A7...@0.0.0.0>, Matthew Malthouse <matthew.malth
>ou...@guardian.co.uk> writes
>
>---- snip snip ---
>
>Interesting. Errmm..was there any nudity ?
Um. Did anyone else expect this question?
Tom.
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