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MARTIN LEWTON
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Billy Budd Sailor Handel's Cross Lord Arthur's Bed Naked HomoBilly Budd Sailor
Synopsis:
Mutiny, murder and male desire in a tale of shipboard obsession and revenge by Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick, told from a bath in a bathroom in the Brunswick Hotel. as a modern gay man tells Billy Budd's story, an ever closer connection uncannily develops between them. . .
Notes:
from the novel by Herman Melville
1st Produced:
Brighton Festival 2011
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length
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Top of PageHandel's Cross
Synopsis:
Tonight, in a fetish dungeon, two men enact an unsettling fantasy about the secrecy, obsession and repressed desire behind the creation of Handels sublime music. HANDELS CROSS is an audacious and unsettling fantasy that uncovers the disturbing underworld of pain and desire beneath the surface of great art. A modern man seeks release in bondage and punishment and an ageing genius schemes to find relief in a world of sumptuous feasts, gorgeous castrati and debauched divas.
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Dublin May 2013
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Genre:
Monologue play. - - Gay, full length
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Male: 2 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageLord Arthur's Bed
Synopsis:
about the lives of gay men today and in the nineteenth century. 2008 - City slickers Donald and Jim are celebrating their civil partnership. 1868 - Wealthy young cross-dressers ernest (Stella) and Fred (Fanny) are celebrating Stella's 'marriage' to Lord arthur Clinton MP. Weaving these stories together, this powerful and funny play Dramatises the farcical trial that gripped the nation 25 years before the downfall of Oscar Wilde.
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Theatre North
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length
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Male: 2 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageNaked Homo
Synopsis:
Ten scenes of gay life
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Genre:
Monologue play. - - Gay, full length
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Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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