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# PREVIEW: Queer Show and Tell: What does it mean to be queer in 2015?
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/preview-queer-show-and-tell-what-does-it-mean-to-be-queer-in-2015/
- Published: 2015-08-11T20:26:08.000Z
- Updated: 2015-08-11T20:26:08.000Z
- Description: Cutting edge venue, the Hackney Showroom in London E8 is presenting in September 12 works that span both theatre and film to shine a new light on LGBTQ issues. The venue wants to provide a platform for writers and performers to test out raw work in development with a few of the plays being rehearsed
- Author: Paul Thorn
- Tags: Arts, Comedy, News, Previews, Theatre

## Cutting edge venue, the Hackney Showroom in London E8 is presenting in September 12 works that span both theatre and film to shine a new light on LGBTQ issues.

![Hackney Showroom](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/web-60039.jpg)

**The venue wants** to provide a platform for writers and performers to test out raw work in development with a few of the plays being rehearsed readings of work in progress. The productions are more than affordable to see with a few of them being completely free of charge.

The programme includes plays of inter-generational stories of sexuality across the decades, experimental works, monologues, and fusions of real and imagined scenarios. There are a variety of films with a focus on drag, transsexuality and politics.

The objective of this short season which runs between September 8-12 is to attempt to overturn what the venue terms as *“apathy and to dig out some clarity”* in light of the gains made for the LGBTQ community in terms of tolerance, for example marriage equality in the US. Yet, there is still a long way to go in other countries of the world who are introducing new draconian anti-queer laws.

**To view the full programme, [click here:](http://www.hackneyshowroom.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**