Resident Alien
Quentin Crisp is considered one of the most original and entertaining characters of the twentieth century.
Overview
Come upstairs to his famously filthy New York apartment. In this one-man-play British raconteur Quentin Crisp, played by Roy Ward, is there waiting to tell you how to have a happy life and avoid having your heart broken. An iconoclast within – and without - the gay community Crisp came of age in London in the 1920s, an era when being openly gay was especially dangerous.
The young Crisp looked for love as a rent boy but found only degradation and spent three decades as a life model before penning his autobiography The Naked Civil Servant. It led to a hugely popular television adaptation starring John Hurt which thrust Crisp into the international spotlight.
Crisp was known as being a conservative and a left wing radical, an Edwardian gentleman and an anarchist, a hater of the establishment and yet an upholder of some of its values. In short, a great, glittering contradiction and one of the most original and entertaining characters of the twentieth century.
Photo credit: Stencil art work by Stewy. Photo by Mark Wallis at thevibes.me
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