St. Ann's Warehouse
38 Water St
718.254.8779
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Photo: Richard Termine
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Mar 4, 2010 – Mar 28, 2010
Wednesdays–Fridays (8pm)
Saturdays (2 & 8pm)
Sundays (4pm)
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- Price
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$30 - $40
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“Legendary British drag rabble-rouser Bette Bourne has 70 years worth of biographical finery to parade about the stage and the skilled hand of Shopping and Fucking playwright Mark Ravenhill to help fashion the sturm und drang. The two settle into conversation, talk-show-style, weaving the threads of an uncommon life that lurches from a working-class childhood to a cross-dressing 1970s London commune to an AIDS-ravaged East Village. Peppered with bon mots from Oscar Wilde and Quentin Crisp, Bourne's story is most informed by the latter who, once accused of cross-dressing only to be noticed, corrected, "I want to be recognized."”
Maura Hogan, Flavorpill
St. Ann's Warehouse says:
The 2009 Edinburgh Fringe First Award winner, A Life in Three Acts, finds Bette Bourne and Mark Ravenhill on stage together. The celebrated performer and key figure in Britain’s largely unreported post-war gay liberation struggle, shares his story with his close friend, one of the U.K.’s most celebrated playwrights.
A Life in Three Acts is a living, breathing history, edited and adapted for the stage from a series of private conversations between two friends, reminiscing about the life and times of Bette Bourne. The performance is remarkably honest, by turns humorous and angry. The story moves from Bourne’s post-war childhood to his first walk across Piccadilly Circus in drag, to his seminal role in the formation of the Gay Liberation Front in Britain. He recalls his life in a drag commune, the creation of the groundbreaking and OBIE Award-winning BLOOLIPS Company, and more -- painting an extraordinary portrait of both a life and a movement. To be sure, the work is more than a memoir. It is a moving celebration of the momentous upheavals and transformative achievements of one of the world’s greatest liberation struggles in history. The show comes to St. Ann’s Warehouse directly on the heels of a successful run at London’s Soho Theatre.
