The musical has long been the realm of the queer…. from Cage Aux Folles to Rent, Rocky Horror to Cabaret. Yet the musical have also been used to reinforce the heteronormative and reaffirm the queer as outsiders. Tonight will not just be any other musical review, it will be a journey into the cannon, where the unexpected is expected and the so called rules have been torn apart and anything is possible.
Join the Arcola Queer Collective and director’s Nick Connaughton, (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Little Prince; Arcola Queer Collective) and Siobhan Knox and Melina Antunes (Sex Workers’ Opera; Experimental Experience) for the Collective’s first ever musical review, piecing together numbers from across the history of the musical to create a new entirely queer narrative.
Come and see the musical through the eyes of our queer community. Fun, campy and sincere…. with added ballads…. and lot’s of heart.
“Tender, funny and utterly brilliant… I urge you to beg, borrow or steal a ticket, if you have to…”
—DIVA Magazine on The Little Prince
“…poignant and thought-provoking, beautifully wrought… you might just leave with a better understanding and appreciation for the fabulous queer community of London.”
—QX Magazine on the Little Prince
“Surely the most inventive, outrageous, and thoroughly enjoyable bending of the Bard that we’ve witnessed … An ingenious blending of classical theatre with burlesque, cabaret and queer politics … Do yourself a favour and run away with the fairies.”
—Gay Times on A Midsummer Night’s Dream