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Gabrielle talks about an important new theatre show about a significant time in LGBT+ history.
At 8pm on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th April this week at the Wardrobe Theatre in Old Market, Tom Marshman will be performing his show, ‘King’s Cross (Remix)’. It’s an innovative piece about the LGBT+ people who lived, loved and danced during the 80s in London around King’s Cross. The piece is based on real people’s accounts of the time, and consists of both recordings of their voices and Tom himself paraphrasing their stories.
In the show, Tom plays the ‘conduit’, remembering boys who stuck up their hair with wood glue and women throwing brick sponges at Margaret Thatcher on TV. If you, like me, have ever had difficulty connecting with LGBT+ history, or finding your community, then I highly recommend making space to see this show. It’s the conversation we never got to have in school.
It’s about HIV and AIDS, and it’s about gorgeous boys in sailor costumes. It’s about trans women and belligerent landlords, promiscuity and revolution. From the still shocking, if now alien “public service” advert about AIDS to real footage of people on a night out at the Bell Pub, this show brings the recent past back to vivid, technicolour life.
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It’s an hour long, and it’s funny, it’s heartbreaking, it’s romantic and it’s angry. If you liked ‘Pride’, or ‘Angels in America’, or if you’re just searching for a deeper understanding of the history of the LGBT+ community and its elder members, this is for you. Don’t miss it.
‘King’s Cross (Remix)’ will be performed by Tom Marshman at the Wardrobe Theatre at 8pm on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th April. Tickets are available for £8 at the Wardrobe Theatre website
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Gabrielle Watts
Gabrielle is a millennial bisexual professional. She’s based in Bristol at the moment and her interests include mental health, sexuality, class politics, intersectional feminism and history. She is both a journalistic and creative writer. In addition to the written word, Gabrielle is passionate about radio. She’s an Assistant Producer for the Saturday Edition and One Love breakfast shows on community radio station BCfm. She’s also a newsreader and co-presenter for Shout Out, the South West’s only LGBT+ radio show, where she does a monthly LGBT+ history feature. When she’s not having fun piling too much onto her plate, Gabrielle writes poetry, bakes cookies and gets excited about petting cats. It’s the little things.
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