Riot Act

A powerful brand new verbatim theatre piece created especially for the Queer Season.

Image: King's Head Theatre

Overview

Genre: Drama

Venue: King's Head Theatre

Starts: Tuesday 31 July 2018

Closes: Sunday 5 August 2018

Running time:1 hr 00 mins

Age suitability: Not available

Background

'Riot Act' is the follow up piece to Alexis Gregory's recent critically acclaimed sell-out run of 'Sex / Crime' (The Glory).

His previous work includes 'Slap' (Stratford East / Channel 4 / Concrete in Shoreditch) and 'Safe' (Soho Theatre / London Theatre Workshop / Norwich Theatre Royal).

He presents 'Riot Act' in association with Team Angelica.

Synopsis

'Riot Act' is a powerful brand new verbatim theatre piece created especially for the 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 home town'.

'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, radical-drag icon Lavinia Co-Op and prominent 1990's London ACT UP AIDS activist Paul Burston and in this solo theatre piece, 'channels' sex 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.