And sometimes in the middle of all the sex someone would put a hand on my shoulder or brush my lips with a kiss or move gentle fingers on the top of my head, and I thought… yes. And I thought…
I thought, this is a long way to go for a moment of tenderness.
From the acclaimed International touring company Starving Artists. Double Fringe First winners and both The Stage & Manchester Evening News Best Actor Award.
Let Me Look At You is the newest performance piece from award-winning Starving Artists Theatre Company. Hilarious and touching. Stand-up meets solo theatre in this personal story from the gay “movement”. Grounded in history and battered by camp, a fifty-something gay man shares his misadventures while quietly having a nervous breakdown himself. On the fiftieth anniversary of the U.K.’s Sexual Offenses Act, Starving Artists offers up the oft-ignored warning: things haven't changed all that much.
“It’s not the homosexuals but the gays I can’t stand”
Stonewall.
The Wolfenden Report.
Fierce women under arrest at the Black Cat bar in Los Angeles.
And the oncoming plague years.
… a sense of revolution, that things can never be the same again.
Time, and experience, and history - unyielding and pitiless teachers. And yet…
there is still time to laugh, to fall in love, to desire and hold. There is still time to dance.
"...they succeeded magificently, in a considered, beautifully nuanced performance by Mark Pinkosh of a wonderfully witty text by Godfrey Hamilton."
-David Kettle, The List