QUENTIN CRISP: NAKED HOPE 

Written & performed by: Mark Farrelly

Directed by: Linda Marlowe

Venue: The Stables

Running Time: 75 Minutes

Tickets: £12 Adults, £9 Concessions

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“Ask yourself this. If there were no praise or blame – who would I be?”

Fresh from its Off-Broadway debut and milestone 150th performance, Mark Farrelly’s hugely acclaimed solo play has delighted audiences across the country.

Naked Hope depicts the legendary Quentin Crisp at two distinct phases of his extraordinary life. Firstly in the late 1960s in his filthy Chelsea flat (“Don’t lose your nerve: after the first four years the dust won’t get any worse”). Here Quentin surveys a lifetime of rejection. Repeatedly beaten for being flamboyantly gay as early as the 1930s, and ostracised for daring to live life on his own terms.

The second part of the play transitions the audience to New York in the 1990s. Here a much older Quentin, finally embraced by society, regales the audience with his sharply-observed, hard-earned philosophy on how to have a lifestyle: “Life will be more difficult if you try to become yourself. But avoiding this difficulty renders life meaningless. So discover who you are. And be it. Like mad!”.

Naked Hope is a glorious, truthful and uplifting celebration of a genuinely unique human being, and of the urgent necessity to be yourself.

★★★★★ All That Dazzles

★★★★★ Theatre and Art Reviews

★★★★★ Broadway Baby (2019)

★★★★★ Sardines Magazine

★★★★ Time Out “An uncanny feat of resurrection. Farrelly’s mastery of his audience is total”

★★★★ Theatrescene.net “A sensational performance” (Review of Off-Broadway debut, 2019)

★★★★ The Stage

★★★★ Metro

Please be advised tickets for this event are non-refundable. In the instance of event cancellation we will offer a refund or exchange.