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Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

Riverside Studios · Hammersmith
Dates
01 Sept
Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

Written and performed by Mark FarrellyDirected by Linda MarloweMark Farrelly brings his hugely-acclaimed solo play to Riverside Studios for an up-close encounter with the original Englishman in New York.From a conventional upbringing to global notoriety via The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin Crisp was one of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century. Openly gay as early as the 1930s, Quentin spent decades being beaten up on London’s streets for refusing to be anything less than himself. His courage, and the philosophy that evolved from those experiences, inspire to the present…