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Riot Act
Contributor(s): Gregory, Alexis (Author)
ISBN: 1786826011     ISBN-13: 9781786826015
Publisher: Oberon Books
OUR PRICE:   $14.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Lgbt
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Social Science | Lgbt Studies - General
Series: Oberon Modern Plays
Physical Information: 0.1" H x 5.2" W x 8.3" (0.10 lbs) 56 pages
 
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Riot Act is a powerful brand-new verbatim theatre piece created especially for the King's Head Theatre Queer Season.

'You know what's strange, I felt safer on the night of the riots, on the sidewalk in front of Stonewall, than I did in my own hometown.'

'I'm a drag queen. I want to live. I want to survive. As an older person, I'm sixty-five now, I couldn't give a f cking shit.'

'In London, the idea of 'safe sex' was: don't 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, a radical drag icon from 1970s London and a 1990s London ACT UP AIDS activist. This solo theatre piece channels six 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Gregory, Alexis: - Alexis Gregory's previous work includes Slap (Stratford East/Channel 4 pop-up performance/Concrete, Shoreditch), Safe (Soho Theatre/London Theatre Workshop/Norwich Theatre Royal) and Sex/Crime (The Glory).