Category: Theatre
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.