Forward Arena are a tiny queer theatre company whose Kickstarter I'd been totally unaware of, but it turns out I love what they do so much that I went to see their two plays a combined total of five times -- Callisto and Children & Animals once each with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sebastienne and shortcipher, then Callisto once with sebastienne, shortcipher and me_and once he'd joined us, and then Callisto and Children & Animals once more with me_and on the final day of the Fringe, after E-B & C had departed.
Callisto is on at the Arcola Theatre, London, next week only, in expanded form -- I'm going to see it on Friday, and there are till tickets available. Come squee with me, if appropriately located?
Callisto was described, in the Kickstarter blurb, as:
... and I love (loved! loved loved loved) it so much. It was brilliantly written, and brilliantly staged, and brilliantly costumed, and I love it.
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sebastienne and shortcipher, then Callisto once with sebastienne, shortcipher and me_and once he'd joined us, and then Callisto and Children & Animals once more with me_and on the final day of the Fringe, after E-B & C had departed.Callisto is on at the Arcola Theatre, London, next week only, in expanded form -- I'm going to see it on Friday, and there are till tickets available. Come squee with me, if appropriately located?
Callisto was described, in the Kickstarter blurb, as:
CALLISTO: A QUEER EPIC, by Howard Coase
"I don't believe the word love has ever meant the same thing twice."
London, 1680: Arabella Hunt is the star of La Callisto, and one half of the first recorded gay marriage in UK history.
Worcester, 1936: Alan Turing pays one final visit to Isobel Morcom, the mother of his lost first love.
San Fernando Valley, 1979: Tammy Frazer lands in Callisto Studios searching for the love of her life.
The Moon, 2223: Lorn is building a paradise to sleep in but Cal is determined to keep him awake.
Callisto: A Queer Epic circles around a constellation of four queer stories scattered across time and space, spanning the historical and the fictional plus everything in between, reframing past narratives and sculpting future worlds, unravelling closed ways of thinking and straight ways of seeing.
... and I love (loved! loved loved loved) it so much. It was brilliantly written, and brilliantly staged, and brilliantly costumed, and I love it.
( Read more... )