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"Truly
memorable… rich and compassionate" - The
Scotsman
"A living legend… an
inspired occasion…lump-in-the-throat moving" - The Guardian
"Hilarious and touching… a priceless repository of mischief
and mimicry, honesty, wisdom and defiance" - The Times
Bette Bourne
Mark Ravenhill
A LIFE IN THREE ACTS
American Premiere
Mar 4
- 28
Tickets
start at $30
The 2009 Edinburgh Fringe First Award winner, A Life in Three Acts, finds Bette Bourne
and Mark Ravenhill on stage together. The celebrated performer and key figure
in Britain’s largely
unreported post-war gay liberation struggle, shares his story with his close friend,
one of the U.K.’s
most celebrated playwrights.
A
Life in Three Acts is a living, breathing history, edited and
adapted for the stage from a series of private conversations between two
friends, reminiscing about the life and times of Bette Bourne. The performance
is remarkably honest, by turns humorous and angry. The story moves from
Bourne’s post-war childhood to his first walk across Piccadilly Circus in drag,
to his seminal role in the formation of the Gay Liberation Front in Britain.
He recalls his life in a drag commune, the creation of the groundbreaking and OBIE Award-winning BLOOLIPS Company, and more
-- painting an extraordinary portrait of both a life and a movement. To
be sure, the work is more than a memoir. It is a moving celebration of the
momentous upheavals and transformative achievements of one of the world’s greatest liberation
struggles in history. The show comes to St. Ann’s Warehouse directly
on the heels of a successful run at London’s
Soho Theatre.
Presented by St.
Ann's Warehouse
A London
Artists Projects Production
Produced by Jeremy Goldstein
Originating co-producer Koninklijke Schouwburg/Het Paradijs, The Haugue (NL)
Direction Mark Ravenhill
Picture Researcher Sheila Corr
Associate Director Hester Chillingworth
Photo by David Gwinnutt
