This evening, I witnessed some excrutiatingly bad/unintentionally hilarious gay local theatre as part of Melbourne’s Midsumma festival. There was a giveaway that we were attending gay theatre – the production company thoughtfully left packs of lube and condoms on the seats as we entered. Classy! Right from the start, this had me concerned about what was expected in terms of audience participation.
After tonight’s experience – in future, I would be indebted if any writer of gay fiction avoids creating ANYTHING – under any media – which could fall under these titles:
- I Was Depressed and in the Country, But Now I’ve Moved to the Gay Part of the City and go to Raves!
- I’ve Returned Home as the Prodigal Son to Confront Everyone Who Fucked With Me When I Grew Up. Fuck Them All, I Can Be a Successful Dancer
- Urethra-Bursting Unlikely Account of High School Coming Out Story
- I’m Wearing a Kimono, Listening to Opera and Coughing an Awful Lot. Guess What’s Wrong With Me?
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I can’t hear the words ‘gay fiction’ without thinking of the high brow, quality works of http://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/.
I should let others know the above link is NSFW… oh so NSFW ;)
I keep writing NSFW as NSWF which looks a bit like NSW Football which as it happens is NSFW
P.S get yourself an agent now!!!! your scripts are going to be worth a fortune!!!!!!!
I’m Wearing a Kimono, Listening to Opera and Coughing an Awful Lot. Guess What’s Wrong With Me?
NOT A DAMN THING.
You went to Jerker, right? :)
Rod, it would just be plain rude of me to point out a specific performance OH MY GOD I CAN’T HELP MYSELF YES IT WAS JERKER
The actors themselves were great, but the script was … well.
well as both a fellow attendee AND close friend of one of the actors (and he’s also the director) i want to extend a apology for the crap script. He’s a good guy, i promise, he just got mixed up in the wrong crowd (that being the indulgent arts-fag crowd).
Dan: I saw it a few weeks ago when I flew in from Perth for Midsumma — wow, why did I bother?
But, seriously, it was a script written in the late ’80s, was it not? I mean, the highlights of the ’80s was the Love Boat, was it not?
Jeb:
And, yes, the acting was great. But, you know, I was a bit shocked by the fact that you can only get a condom and lube at two places in Melbourne targeted at gays — SOPVs and… Jerker! :)
Well Christ on a stick it’s been a while since I’ve read something that made me laugh without trying. Thank you, and our local Queer Community Theater thanks you as well, whether they know it or not.