Performance

Venue	Old Red Lion
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	18th February 2018
To	19th February 2018
When	19:30
Old Red Lion (V216)
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Date of change: 18 Jan 18 - T01349208055

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

Work:: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (S01161468632)

Exeter, 1984. How do you survive being gay at high school with only Culture Club, Eurythmics and Tears for Fears on your side? A funny and painfully honest solo performance about beating the bullies with the magic force fields of pop music and acting in school plays. Raw confessions from an era when being picked on for a sexuality you barely understood felt more like Orwell's 1984 than the real one. A bittersweet celebration of a time when you revelled in the innocently uncool joys of Kajagoogoo like your life depended on it. Because maybe it actually did. First crushes. Dancing to your Walkman. Trying to tape the Top 40 without the DJ talking over it. Constant pressure to be straight. Act more "masculine". A long time ago... but maybe not all that different from now. "Do you really want to hurt me?"

Author

Ben SantaMaria

Production:: (T01349208055)

Director	Ben SantaMaria
Performer	Ryan Price

Listing:: L1785725749

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