Overview
A young soldier returning from the trenches of the First World War
recollects a love that dares not speak its name. Almost one hundred
years later, a groom-to-be prepares for his gay wedding.
Queers
celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political
milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight
individuals.
Poignant and personal, funny, tragic and riotous, these
eight monologues for male and female performers cover major events such
as the Wolfenden Report of 1957, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the debate
over the age of consent through deeply affecting and personal
rites-of-passage stories. Curated by Mark Gatiss, the monologues were
commissioned to mark the anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act,
which decriminalised homosexual acts in private between two men over the
age of twenty-one. They will be broadcast on BBC Four in 2017, directed
and produced by Gatiss, and starring Alan Cumming, Rebecca Front, Ian
Gelder, Kadiff Kirwan, Russell Tovey, Gemma Whelan, Ben Whishaw and
Fionn Whitehead. They will also be staged at The Old Vic in London. This
volume includes: The Man on the Platform by Mark Gatiss, The Perfect
Gentleman by Jackie Clune, Safest Spot in Town by Keith Jarrett, Missing
Alice by Jon Bradfield, I Miss the War by Matthew Baldwin, More Anger
by Brian Fillis, A Grand Day Out by Michael Dennis.