5 Guys Chillin' at the King's Head Theatre
London theatre news: Thursday 6 April 2017
Gay - London Fringe - Shows
Following highly acclaimed, sell-out performances in Dublin, New York, Sydney and Edinburgh, 5 Guys Chillin' returns to London for a limited three week season from May 16 2017.
Image: King's Head Theatre
Woven together using the real words of real guys found on Grindr, 5 Guys Chillin' is a state-of-the-nation play addressing one of the most important public health crises of the twenty-first century, frankly discussing chemsex in taut, intimate and unflinching verbatim drama.
5 Guys Chillin' is addressing this urgent crisis, and has thus been performed all over the world to great acclaim.
Writer/director Peter Darney says:
“I hope this play shows some of the good times, some of the bad times, and encourages you to think about what is right for you.
It's your choice, no one else's.
But let's all talk, look out for each other, and make our decisions with free will, from an informed place.”
With more and more gay men falling into addiction, and more incidents of chemsex-related crime, discussing this issue has never been more urgent - and it isn't going away.
David Stuart of 56 Dean Street, a health clinic in Soho, still sees approximately 3000+ drug cases per month, and that number is not decreasing.
He says
“Gay communities around the world are in the throes of a profound cultural shift; some of this is manifesting as poor sexual wellbeing, and chemsex.
We need kind hearts and cool heads to address it and I believe theatre, at its very best, can help us to do this.
I'm so pleased that Peter Darney has had the courage and compassion to address these issues through the prism of true stories; this is verbatim theatre.
This is community.”
Venue
King's Head Theatre
115 Upper Street
London N1 1QN
Dates
16 May to 3 June 2017
Tickets
£19/£16 (concessions), £10 previews (May 16th)
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