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Put your imagination into overdrive!

Written by David Harrod and Peter Scott-Presland, who won a DORA for Dorothy’s Travels, this free musical adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde explores the gradations of sex and love between a variety of gay and lesbian characters.

La Ronde is set in a gay bar and in the bedrooms of various protagonists. A young boy – the Kid – enters the bar just as the patrons are told to finish their drinks and leave by the seemingly uncaring Barman. To his great surprise he finds men making out in the toilet and is told to take his business elsewhere. The Wolf is looking for game and the naïve boy is easy prey. He seduces the innocent and then kicks him out into the street.  In the next episode the Wolf is deserted by his lover, the Soldier, who thinks he can find more exciting sex on the internet. The scene where the Soldier is chatting up his future playmate is hilarious. The Fag is not at all into the rough role playing that the Soldier adores so much. They meet and the Fag later tells his friend, the Dyke, about his strange experience - before she starts a fight with the Barman-Singer for crooning a provocative song titled “We Don’t Serve Fish”. And the merry-go-round moves on.

The musical score is tuneful and exciting and supports the structure of the episodic play which explores many aspects of gay and some heterosexual sex and love. The cast is very good, led by an outstanding Simon Chilvers as the Kid, Randy Smartnick as the sweet and sensitive Fag, Joe Schefer as the Husband who has not really found himself yet and Bradley Clapson as the Barman and naughty singer Connie Linctus.  

The show is funny and satirical but it is also touching and thought provoking. Very good entertainment indeed!

7.30pm 15 March - 3 April
Tuesday – Saturday 7.45pm, Sundays 4pm

Suitable for over 18s only

Tickets: £ 12 / £ 10 (concessions)

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