‘We do not feel supported by strongholds of creativity such as the National Theater’
Around a blue-lit, scaled-down stage at the Penarth Center (certainly one of London’s less-visited venues, found in South Bermondsey), a busy crowd of gays erupted into feverish, tearful applause last month. A performance of Jerker, the 1986 play about phone sex during the AIDS pandemic by the late San Francisco playwright and activist Robert Chesley, … Read more