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