Ruth Leon recommends…Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

Ruth Leon recommends…Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

Ruth Leon recommends

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July 24, 2021

Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope
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July 22-Aug 1

Naked Hope’ is a glorious, truthful and uplifting celebration of a genuinely unique human being, and of the urgent necessity to be yourself.   Written and performed by Mark Farrelly, and directed by Linda Marlowe, ‘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.   In the second part of the play, he’s in 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.

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