Once upon a time in a faraway land called the 1990s, there lived a young gay man who had been transformed into a hideous Beast by a powerful spell.
Locked away in his hideaway with only an extremely talkative Magic Mirror for company, he is forced to confront the record of his relationship dramas in a quest for clues that might help break the enchantment.
And thus begins a journey of self-discovery that summons up boyfriends and breakups, some of London’s lost queer spaces from the era, and the house sounds that defined a decade.
This autobiographical show combines a queer re-telling of Beauty and the Beast with a revisionist take on the 1990s to create a kind of solo panto featuring some inevitable (but entirely voluntary) moments of audience participation.
Written and performed by Martin Moriarty
Director: Sean Ting-Hsuan Wang
Assistant Director: Sasha Tzu-Yin Hsu
Movement Director: Pamela Ching-Yun Tsou
“British theatre would be completely stymied without tiny, under-resourced venues such as CPT, which are a critical part of the theatre ecology.”
Lyn Gardner Stagedoor
