Fagburn has just been leafing through the programme for this year's Brighton Festival. Usually Fagburn is lucky if he finds one event he wants to see - and they've usually been not so much "art" as watching someone talking; Edward W Said, Mark E Smith, Neil Tennant, Brian Eno...
This year's no different - just the one event has grabbed me by the gonads, and it's most definitely your actual gay culture!
So, here is Fagburn's Pick of the Brighton Festival 2011...
For Alfonso: A Wilde Evening at the Royal
by Neil Bartlett, with Bette Bourne and guests.
World Premiere
Saturday May 21st, Theatre Royal, Brighton
Blurb! "In 1888, Oscar Wilde published a children's story called The Remarkable Rocket, about a firework who fails to understand the true nature of love.
On 27 September 1894, he took a boy called Alfonso Conway (whom he'd picked up on Worthing Pier) back to a hotel room in Brighton. Six months later, Alfonso was in a solicitor's office, being forced to give evidence against the man who'd treated him to a very special night out.
"Witty, provocative - and for one night only - For Alfonso imagines the words first spun for Oscar's children in their Chelsea nursery being whispered in the ear of a very different kind of boy..."
Obviously this will be beyond amazing.
Can I have a free ticket, please?
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Nelly Bartlett! Bona!
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