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Part of The Takeover Sight Unseen Season
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Runtime: 1h 05m
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One of the criticisms increasingly levelled at the solo artistic director model of leadership, which still predominates in British theatre, is that it can lead to tunnel vision, in which programming may be done to some extent by a team but is strongly influenced by the person at the top of the theatre. It’s inevitable, not least because it tends to be that individual who is the face of the organisation and who is held accountable for the success or failure of a season. But what happens to a theatre’s output when four guest artistic directors from widely varying theatre backgrounds curate their own mini-programmes of work? Step up the King’s Head where Tom Ratcliffe, Tania Azevedo, and David Cumming are taking the reins for a short time each. The experiment kicks off with Isabel Adomakoh Young choosing a season of shows that include Unleash the Llama with Five Years with the White Man about the black satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, who wrote the first ethnographic account of the White Man; the drag king piece King Dynasty from the queer Pan-Asian company Bitten Peach; Alice McKee’s Perverts about threesomes and internalised shame; and much, much more.
About Perverts
"There’s nothing less sexy than the cloakroom queue at a sex party" Katie is trapped in a sex club. As exes, almosts & threesomes-past come back to haunt her, she travels through sticky dance-floors, polythene playrooms & freezing dungeons in search of an escape. A surreal, sarky & sexy comedy about queer shame & desire. The second play from BAFTA nominated writer-docmaker Alice McKee, Perverts follows the team’s successful run at Vault Festival & Queer Fringe Festival. This show is part of Sight Unseen, a season curated by Isabel Adomakoh Young for The Takeover. Age Recommendation: 16+