Packed with witty gems, Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope is a gloriously uplifting celebration of the urgent necessity to be yourself.
Quentin Crisp was one of the most memorable public figures of the twentieth century. Flamboyantly gay as early as the 1930s, Quentin spent decades being beaten up on the streets of London, but stayed resolute to his determination to be himself. After achieving fame when portrayed by John Hurt in The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin became an international treasure.
Naked Hope depicts Quentin at two phases of his extraordinary life: alone in his Chelsea flat in the 1960s, stoically certain that life has passed him by (“I’ve come to the end of my personality”) and thirty years later, giving a performance of his legendary one-man show An Evening with Quentin Crisp in New York.
Written and performed by Mark Farrelly, directed by Linda Marlowe, Mark Farrelly (Jarman) brings his hugely-acclaimed solo play to Buxton for an up-close encounter with the original Englishman in New York.
“A stunning piece of theatre, masterfully told.”
Broadway Baby
“Mark Farrelly channels Quentin Crisp brilliantly.”
Boy George