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Bilimankhwe arts
A Counterculture 50 commission - 5 pieces 5 decades: 1990's
Two similar scenarios played out 10,000 miles apart have very different consequences in Bilimankhwe Arts retelling of Love on Trial, which intercuts Stanley Kenani’s Caine Prize-nominated story of illegal homosexuality in Malawi with the press frenzy surrounding British singer George Michael’s 1998 arrest for ‘lewd conduct’ in an LA public toilet.
Venue: Downstairs
Two similar scenarios played out 10,000 miles apart have very different consequences in Bilimankhwe Arts retelling of Love on Trial, which intercuts Stanley Kenani’s Caine Prize-nominated story of illegal homosexuality in Malawi with the press frenzy surrounding British singer George Michael’s 1998 arrest for ‘lewd conduct’ in an LA public toilet.
Tuesday 19 February
The acclaimed Malawian writer Stanley Kenani joins the Love On Trial creative team for a post-show Q & A.
(admission included in ticket)
AN OVALHOUSE COUNTERCULTURE 50 COMMISSION
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Tue 26 Feb – Sat 2 Mar, 8:15pm
The Turing archive, a treasure chest of histories, is being downsized; money is tight and space is precious. But what should be saved? And is it really worth saving anything anyway? Two colleagues risk discarding a few innocent looking documents and erasing a whole past. A mischievous piece about forgetting, activism and apathy.
Tue 29 Jan – Sat 2 Feb, 8:00pm
Meet the inverts – with their own inverted language and their own inverted societies, visit their bars and their cruising grounds, ogle at their queer lifestyle and eccentric ways.
It’s the final days for a community catapulted into the mainstream, and all because the Church of England believed in the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
Tue 29 Jan – Sat 16 Feb, 7:45pm
Following the story of Amina Arraf, the blogger known as 'A Gay Girl In Damascus', and the events fomented by the media's coverage of her kidnapping, Sour Lips fuses fantasy and non-fiction to create its own speculative narrative.