PREVIEW: Brighton Festival: Boy Stroke Girl
Can you fall in love with someone without knowing their gender? Peter is about to find out when he falls for the sexually ambiguous ‘Blue’. Their relationship poses a challenge to Peter’s identity, forcing him to face some difficult questions: To what extent are we all encouraged to conform to narro
Can you fall in love with someone without knowing their gender?
Peter is about to find out when he falls for the sexually ambiguous ‘Blue’.
Their relationship poses a challenge to Peter’s identity, forcing him to face some difficult questions: To what extent are we all encouraged to conform to narrow culturally defined stereotypes, to label and to pigeon-hole ourselves?
Are these labels a form of straight jacket, by adapting to them do we compromise our true nature and can we defy the ultimate label of gender?
Casting caution to the wind, Peter’s passion for Blue provokes prejudice and hostility from friends and family in a tale of sexual liberation and shattered taboos.
♦ “A sharply observed unconventional new love story” (Tristan Bates Theatre)
Boy Stoke Girl is written by Ian Dixon Potter (Good King Richard, The School of Light, The Dead Shepherd, The Resurrectionist), directed by Courtney Larkin (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Good King Richard, I’m Not Here, Home Free) and performed by Lai-Si Lassalle, Gianbruno Spena, Katrina Allen and Duncan Mason.
Event: Boy Stroke Girl by Ian Dixon Potter
Where: THE WARREN: STUDIO 2 St Peter’s Church North York Place, Brighton BN1 4GU
When: Friday, May 13 at 2.45pm: Saturday, May 14 at 2.45pm: Sunday, May 15 at 2.45pm: Monday, May 16 at 8.45pm: Tuesday, May 17 at 8.45pm
Cost: £9.50: conc £8, student £6.50: care support worker £4.75
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