A Gay Century Volume 2: 1973-2001

7 more unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life

Peter Scott-Presland (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

2023
The Conrad Press (Verlag)
978-1-915494-30-6 (ISBN)

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A collection of seven short plays about gay life

'A Gay Century: Vol 2' is a vivid portrait of gay life in recent history, using a series of seven playlets which are dramatic, angry, funny and heartbreaking in turn.

A camp old man collides with Gay Liberation and gets a new lease of life; a gay bandsman can't grieve for his lover killed in an IRA bomb - until he's thrown out of the army for being gay; a gay man and a lesbian decide to have a baby, but their partners plot to stop it; the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub devastates not only the victims but their friends. Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde - repression and liberation - battle for supremacy; there can only be one victor.

Peter Scott-Presland has been a performer, songwriter, playwright, journalist and historian since 1971. Three of his musicals have been nominated for awards, and a brewery tried unsuccessfully to ban his play, Leather, from their pub theatre. He is halfway through writing a three-volume history of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, 'Amiable Warriors'. He is the recipient of the 2021 International Lesbian and Gay Cultural Network Award. He lives in South London.

1973: Autumn
1982: After Sefton
1984: Quarantine
1986: A Shot at the Future
1988: Eric Lives With Martin and Jenny
1999: Skin Deep
2001: Two Into One

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	A Gay Century ; 2
Zusatzinfo	26 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Canterbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
ISBN-10	1-915494-30-3 / 1915494303
ISBN-13	978-1-915494-30-6 / 9781915494306
Zustand	Neuware