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  • READ: Visibility, vulnerability, and individualism (part two)

    READ: Visibility, vulnerability, and individualism (part two)

    Audiences have a role to play in theatre beyond consumers, it is one of the distinguishing features of the art form. Merely noting our discomfort, using outrage to avoid facing our trauma, blaming the artist for ‘washing our dirty linen in public’, or heading for the exit and the uneasy comfort of temporary safety, feel…

  • READ: Visibility, vulnerability, and individualism

    READ: Visibility, vulnerability, and individualism

    One man’s journey to selfhood, Jackson’s play recounts the tale of Usher, a Black queer everyman writing a musical about a Black queer man writing a musical. A Strange Loop does what great theatre can – connects its audience to the characters’ humanity, and through them, helps us to understand our own humanity better.

  • READ: RENAISSANCE? THE TIME IS NOW

    When asked what obstacles exist for those seeking to create Black Queer spaces at our ‘A Place For Us?’ event last month, Akeil from Queer Bruk stated simply, ‘We have to turn up for each other’. If we believe that a Black queer renaissance is possible, it seems to be a basic requirement. Here are…

  • THEATRE: EXITS AND ENTRANCES

    THEATRE: EXITS AND ENTRANCES

    This month, we’re heading back to the theatre. Join us. Theatre can be extractive or enriching, when all the world’s a stage, who gets to be a player matters.

  • Watch This Space: Aaron Lambert

    I was doing what I wasn’t supposed to be doing for a long time and had to pay the price for that. I didn’t want to pay it no more. So I made a new choice.

  • Watch This Space: Mike Scott-Harding

    ‘The best antidote to this epidemic of ‘solitary confinement’ is to come together; to share and to validate our truths; theatre is such a place.’ Meet the theatre-maker bringing the Black British musical ‘Pattie Shop Diaries’ to the stage

  • Read: BlackOut Inheritance: Part Four

    We got to wondering what knowledge, wisdom, or artefacts we have inherited from other black gay men and what we would like to pass on. Here, Phil and Rob share their inheritance/legacy

  • Read: BlackOut Inheritance – part three

    We got to wondering what knowledge, wisdom, or artefacts we have inherited from other black gay men and what we would like to pass on. Here, Marc and Ashley share their inheritance/legacy