theatre

Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

On tour at 2 venues in 2 towns · 2 performances from Mon 14 Sept to Fri 28 May.

Written and performed by Mark Farrelly Directed by Linda Marlowe Mark Farrelly (Jarman) brings his hugely-acclaimed solo play to Beacon Arts Centre for an up-close encounter with the original Englishman in New York. From a conventional upbringing to global notoriety via The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin Crisp was one of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century. Openly gay as early as the 1930s, Quentin spent decades being beaten up on London’s streets for refusing to be anything less than himself. His courage, and the philosophy that evolved from those experiences, inspire to the pre