Presented as a series of vignettes exploring what it means to be gay in the traditionally robustly heterosexual black community, 'Black Faggot' is a though-provoking, touching and often amusing performance at the Rehearsal Room of the Fringe Hub in North Melbourne.
There is the young man who is too scared to come out to his family and friends for fear of rejection (despite many of them being perfectly aware of his orientation), the happily married man who 'accidentally' finds himself in a gay bar and the gay couple who are very active in the bedroom, which has unfortunate consequences for any fabrics in the line of fire - so to speak.
The vignettes present as criss-crossing windows into the lives of several recurring characters whose stories gradually develop over the course of the 50 minutes we spend with them. Some characters resolve the issues in their lives which arise from them being gay and some have new issues develop, but they all are changed by what they encounter.
This is a highly entertaining and enlightening show with two excellent central performances and is showing until October 5th.
There is the young man who is too scared to come out to his family and friends for fear of rejection (despite many of them being perfectly aware of his orientation), the happily married man who 'accidentally' finds himself in a gay bar and the gay couple who are very active in the bedroom, which has unfortunate consequences for any fabrics in the line of fire - so to speak.
The vignettes present as criss-crossing windows into the lives of several recurring characters whose stories gradually develop over the course of the 50 minutes we spend with them. Some characters resolve the issues in their lives which arise from them being gay and some have new issues develop, but they all are changed by what they encounter.
This is a highly entertaining and enlightening show with two excellent central performances and is showing until October 5th.
