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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?"

Cast/Performers

Ryan Price

Creatives/Company

Author: Ben SantaMaria
Director: Ben SantaMaria

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Play) production archive for QTIX code T01349208055. Details of all Do You Really Want to Hurt Me archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S01161468632

Archive Listings

18 Feb 18 to 19 Feb 18	Old Red Lion Inner London, Greater London Performance Details => Venue archive
25 Jan 18 to 26 Jan 18	The Bike Shed Theatre Exeter, Devon Performance Details => Venue archive

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