Can you fall in love with someone if you don’t know their gender? This is the question posed by the hit play Boy Stroke Girl that after its sell out run in September 2016, returns to London’s Etcetera Theater for two weeks in February & March 2017:
It’s the story of Peter who is about to find out when he falls for the sexually ambiguous ‘Blue’. Their relationship poses a challenge to Peter’s identity, forcing him to face some difficult questions: To what extent are we all encouraged to conform to narrow culturally defined stereotypes, to label and to pigeon-hole ourselves?
Are these labels a form of straight jacket, by adapting to them do we compromise our true nature and can we defy the ultimate label of gender? Does this pressure to conform inevitably give rise to derision and hatred towards those who by choice or inclination, stand outside society’s norms?
Casting caution to the wind, Peter’s passion for Blue provokes prejudice and hostility from friends and family in a tale of sexual liberation and shattered taboos.
The play written and directed by Ian Potter Thorne got some rave reviews last time around e.g. “A truly stimulating piece of theatre” “Complicates and liberates ideas of human behaviour.”
ETCETERA THEATRE
265 Camden High St., London NW1 7BU
28th Feb – 12th March 2017
7:30pm (Sundays 6.30pm) £12.00/£10.00 concs.
