The writing and the reading of fiction is, by its nature, a solitary activity, and so at a fiction event of any kind there is a pleasurable jolt when the private experience becomes a public one. It is unlike theatre for this reason because there is a natural solidarity within an audience of readers when their personal, private world is transformed into a shared one. When this works the result is electric. And this is precisely what happened at the Short Fuse fiction event, Pride & Prejudice, this September.
Polari attended to support of one its main contributors, William Summers, whose short story ‘Plastic’ was one of the featured works. The evening featured a short play, Tom & Jerry, by playwright/actor/director Nick Myles; the reading of an historical paper, ‘Gay Punks in T-Shirts’, by Dr Lucy Robinson; and an onstage interview with, and a reading from, VG Lee.
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Categories: Critical Eye
Tagged: kieron james, lucy robinson, nick myles, nick rawle, short fuse, vg lee, william summers
- Published:
- October 3, 2009 – 10:25
- Author:
- By Christopher Bryant
The very lovely Clementine, the Living Fashion Doll, asked me if I would go to the Southbank to review a … a … what? It wasn’t a show. It wasn’t a review. It was called Crossing over, and it was convened by the House of Homosexual Culture. A ‘Happening’? An’ exposition?’
I met my companion, Polari’s editor Christopher, at the bar in the Southbank centre, and we made our way down into the Bowels of the Festival Hall. Down, down, down to the Blue Room on the ‘Spirit Level’.
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Categories: Critical Eye
Tagged: aleem khan, diana, fay presto, lazlo pearlman, magician, polari, sege nicholson, southbank centre, transsexual
- Published:
- July 4, 2009 – 16:21
- Author:
- By Fay Presto
