Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Bregenzer Festspiele

Manchester International Festival

Conductor

Yshani Perinpanayagam

Stage director

Ted Huffman

Dramaturge

Scottee

Costume designer

Theo Clinkard

Choreographer

Set designer

Rosie Elnile

Singer

Soloists

Katherine Goforth

Deepa Johnny

Mariamielle Lamagat

Themba Mvula

Collin Shay

Lighting designer

Bertrand Couderc

Sound designer

Simon Hendry

NYU Skirball

English

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Aix-en-Provence

France

Pavillon Noir

Public

Private

French

Approved

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions Venables

Interview with the director Ted Huffman around The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Philip Venables and Ted Huffman, a European creation to discover on July 8 and 9, 2023 at the Black Pavilion. Follow the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence Website - https://festival-aix.com

A BAROQUE FANTASIA
TEXT BY TED HUFFMAN
BASED ON THE FAGGOTS & THEIR FRIENDS BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS (1977) BY LARRY MITCHELL

"It’s been a long time since the last revolutions and the faggots and their friends are still not free." Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (1977)

Larry Mitchell’s The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a cult book published in 1977, which became unavailable and was reissued on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots because of its enduring relevance. A fantastic parable hiding a political manifesto, a radical vision of the evolution of the world through a queer lens: Faggots draws a revolutionary counter-utopia for all the oppressed, against a patriarchal model that is on its way out. From this colourful, amusingly irreverent work, full of joyful madness, Philip Venables* and Ted Huffman* have worked together once again – after 4.48 Psychosis (2016) and Denis and Katya (2019) – to create a playful, madcap and profound patchwork somewhere between an opera and a cabaret revue. The fifteen performers are in turn singers, actors, and instrumentalists. And they remind us that, yes, pleasure is on the side of the good.

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Venables, From (2023/2023), Directed by Ted Huffman,, Conductor Yshani Perinpanayagam, Pavillon Noir, Aix-en-Provence, France

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