GFest - gayWise LGBT Arts Festival
Saturday 22nd November @ 7:30 pm
Sunday 23rd November @ 7:30 pm
For more details about the festival please visit http://www.gaywisefestival.org.uk/Tickets: £12 (£8 concessions)
Box Office: 020 7269 1606 or Book Online
Saturday 22nd November @ 7:30 pm
iNiT's City Cabaret, Tom Marshman, David Meech, Rosie Wilby
iNiTs' City Cabaret
Performer: Guy Harries
Duration: 20 mins
iNiT's City Cabaret combines cabaret, electronica, rock and Middle Eastern influences. The lyrics combine burlesque, urban angst and lurv. The frontman switches identity like a true chameleon. It's flirty, cheeky and very very queer. iNiT is more than an electro-rock band. A bit camp, a bit butch, a bit of a tease, some sleaze but mostly - stories with a grain of truth.
Finding my Inner Cowboy
Performer: Tom Marshman
Duration: 20 mins
From riding a bucking bronco, leaning to lasso, line dancing to sliding whisky tumblers down bars, the piece reflects Tom's experiences of living as a cowboy in May 2007. The piece is a mix of visual images and text derived from real life incidences to more poetic narratives. Tom's struggle with traditional assumptions of masculinity through explorations of finding numerous cowboy personas, in turn questions idea of sexuality and gender and looks at breaking some rules of performance.
David Meech (stand up)
Performer: David Meech
Duration: 15 mins
In this stand up comedy piece. David discusses growing up gay in the Wild, Wild Westcountry and gives his inimitable take on life! Central to the piece are thoughts on politicans, celebrities and much more - Camp, filthy and full of west country charm!
Rosie Wilby (stand up)
Performer: Rosie Wilby
Duration: 20 mins
Coming out stories, internet dating, family, career, and maybe even some games ... Rosie Wilby - Lesbian stand up comedian presents some highlights from her two Edinburgh Fringe solo shows - the autobiographical Olympic Swingball Champion 2012 and spoof memory lecture I Am Nesia.
Sunday 23rd November @ 7:30
Dusty Limits, Tonny A, Lindsey Price, Stav B, Lucy Ellinson
One Empty Bottle
Performer: Dusty Limits
Duration: 20 mins
Four original cabaret songs by Dusty limits and Michael Roulston, explore aspects of obsession; self-harm, drug dependency, sexual longing, insomnia. Two performers - one accomplished singer, one noted pianist/backing singer.
Gay, Bodied and Sold
Performer: Tonny A.
Duration: 10 mins
Gay, Bodied and Sold is a short solo performance piece that combines spoken words with burlesque and theatre. As one of The Fallen Raconteur's acts, this performance depicts the inner struggle that a disabled gay man has to cope with guys' perceptions of his physicality and, as a direct consequence, how fully he embraces his sexuality to reconcile himself with his body.
Ed Venture's Quintessentially English Tea Party
Performer: Lindsey Price
Duration: 25 mins
Quintessentially English Tea Party is a highly original piece of interactive theatre where the audience find themselves as Ed's guests. They are invited to share with him a cup of tea, a fondant fancy, and tales of love, loss and why he can never be his father's son. The piece is developed from Lindsey's own accidental passing as male and her subsequent desire to explore her masculine side through drag, and the blurrings between female masculinity and male femininity.
let's be... not
Performer: Stav B
Duration: 7 mins
let's be... not is a performance on the misunderstanding of love and friendship, obsession and compromise, longing and yearning, beauty and anger; realisations, which lead, of course, to understanding and friendship! The performances are the extensions of the photographs. The non-identified subject acquires an identity in this interactive piece.
Drag Prince William
Performer: Lucy Ellinson
Duration: 20 mins
Alternative cabaret meets contemporary drag king performance. William has appeared at Queer Story Telling Festival (Brighton and London), London Burlesque Festival newcomers competition and 'Yourspace' scratch night at Edinburgh Festival 08.