Name: The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
Start: 2024-06-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-06-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Muziekgebouw

Organization

Admin

Holland Festival

Mise en scène

Ted Huffman

Direction d'orchestre

Yshani Perinpanayagam

Chorégraphie

Theo Clinkard

Costumes

Décors

Rosie Elnile

Lumières

Bertrand Couderc

Simon Hendry

Dramaturgie

Scottee Scottee

Chanteur

Kerry Bursey

Soloists

Jacob Garside

Katherine Goforth

Kit Green

Conor Gricmanis

Deepa Johnny

Mariamielle Lamagat

Themba Mvula

Meriel Price

Sally Swanson

anglais

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Amsterdam

Pays-Bas

Muziekgebouw

Grote Zaal

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions Venables

Public

Ayyappa swamy y

néerlandais

Valide

Welkom in deze fantastische queer versie van de wereldgeschiedenis waarin vriendschap en plezier centraal staan. Hier wordt de queer gemeenschap gevierd met zang en dans en worden nieuwe fabels en mythen de wereld in geholpen.

Welcome to this fantastic queer version of world history in which friendships and pleasure are central. The queer community is celebrated here with song and dance, and new myths and fables are born.
 
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a musical theatre piece based on the cult 1977 novel of the same name by Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta. It offers a vision of world history through a queer lens. With a cast of actors, singers, dancers and musicians, this musical version by composer Philip Venables and director Ted Huffman reworks the original text into a kaleidoscopic journey that blends music and storytelling: look forward to re-enacted battles, as well as cheerleading and raves. Venables’ varied music ventures into Elizabethan lute songs, bossa nova, techno, with occasional moments that would not seem out of place in a Disney musical.

The result is an anarchic, satirical celebration of queer experience that is both vulnerable and daring. Sharing deeply personal stories proves both comforting and healing, as the marginalised are here not side-lined but take centre stage. The world they create constitutes a sharp critique of capitalism, assimilation and patriarchy that continues to be relevant today, when radical change remains needed. 

Friends of Philip Venables pointed the novel out to him and Huffman. Venables: ‘The book was all about sex positivity, gender freedom and a self-determined life. For these friends of mine, the book was a kind of bible. I couldn’t get it out of my head.’

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