25 Noel Road: a genius like us by Carlos Be

"Orton was one of the first gay art icons. Out, notorious and anarchic, his plays dominated the left wing of the arts. His life was sexual, aggressive, controlling and decadent in the extremes of the swinging sixties. Carlos Be's story does not pull its punches. It goes to the core of this excessive couple and examines their own dysfunctionality in a passionate and uninhibited way. Fetish, cottaging, plagiarism, lust, open relationships and violence are hurled at the audience at a furious and toxic pace by the intenseness of the performance." Brian Merriman, International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival's Director

25 Noel Road: a genius like us by Carlos Be
Caja España Theatre Award 2001
Translated by Berni Armstrong

Now available in English! http://carlosbepu.blogspot.com/2007/12/noel-road-25-genius-like-us.html

Photograph: Joe Orton © Lewis Morley Archive / National Portrait Gallery (London)
Music: The flight of bumble bee by Rimsky Korsakov © Dúo Cassadó

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