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PREVIEW: Brighton Fringe Festival: 4 Guys Chillin’

A graphic, gripping, funny and frank verbatim drama exposing the gay Chill-out scene.

4 Guys Chillin'

“Wanna pair of shorts? Shot of G? Line of Meth?”

From surgeons to students, couples to kink, guys that love it and lost guys longing to be loved. An original look into a drug-fuelled, hedonistic, highly secret world of chem-sex, Grindr and instant gratification.

Past productions include:

Signal Failure: **** Scotsman **** Broadway Baby **** Edinburgh Guide

Frank Sent Me: ***** New Current **** Scotsgay ****Three weeks

Mysterious Skin: Broadway Baby ***** Fringe Review ***** Fringe Guru *****

Taken from over 50 hours of interviews from guys found through Grindr and other social media, this is an important look at the relatively new scene that they have been fundamental in creating.

4 Guys Chillin’ looks at changing attitudes to sex, to HIV and to our perception of what sexual relations can and should be.


Event: 4 Guys Chillin’, an Em-Lou Production

Where: Otherplace at the Basement, 24 Kensington Street, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 4AJ

When: May 22, 24 and 25

Time: 9.30 p.m.

Tickets: £10 / £8.50 conc.

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Twitter: @emloupro

Stonewall Equality Dinner raises record amount

Stonewall’s annual equality dinner, which took place at the Hilton on Park Lane, raised £470,000 for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Equality last week.

Stella Duffy
Stella Duffy: Photo SHOTBYROB.com

THE event took place at the Hilton on Park Lane and was supported by Aviva, with a champagne reception supported by E.ON.

Speakers on the night included Stonewall CEO Ruth Hunt; Vicar of Finedon, broadcaster and writer Reverend Richard Coles; and award-winning writer, actor and director Stella Duffy. All emphasised in their speeches that while there are certainly legislative achievements to celebrate, there is still a lot to do to achieve social equality for LGBT people.

Clare Balding and Alice Arnold: Photo SHOTBYROB.com
Clare Balding and Alice Arnold: Photo SHOTBYROB.com

Guests on the night included Graham Norton, Clare Balding, Marcus Collins, Robin Windsor, Alicya Eyo, Lord Alli, Stella Duffy, Jack Monroe and John Amaechi.

Money raised from the event will support Stonewall’s work to go deeper into communities and help to improve the lives of LGBT people.

Top auction prizes included a private dinner with Liz Hurley and Joan Collins, a mint condition 7” single signed by the Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield, lunch with Lord Michael Cashman in the House of Commons, and a signed self-portrait of Sir Ian McKellen.

Jan Gooding, Chair of Stonewall’s Board of Trustees, said: “The Stonewall Equality Dinner is an extremely important event in the organisation’s fundraising calendar. Not only is it a chance to celebrate how far lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans equality has come, but it’s also an opportunity to focus on the work that’s left to do and raise vital funds to achieve it.”

Rev Richard Coles and  Stonewall CEO Ruth Hunt: Photo SHOTBYROB.com
Rev Richard Coles and Stonewall CEO Ruth Hunt: Photo SHOTBYROB.com

Ruth Hunt, Stonewall’s Chief Executive, thanked supporters on the night, saying: “We’ve come so far in our journey towards equality, but there are still so many big issues that affect different parts of our community. Our work will not stop until every LGBT person, in every country, school, church, street, hospital and school, is free to be themselves and is accepted without exception.”

Marcus Collins and Robin Windsor: Photo SHOTBYROB.com
Marcus Collins and Robin Windsor: Photo SHOTBYROB.com

 

Emporium needs your help

Emporium, Brighton’s only professional producing theatre, is raising funds to improve its facilities and provide a better experience for audiences and performers alike.

Emporium

Since opening its doors in April 2013, Emporium on London Road has coped with temporary seating and kind gifts of technical equipment from supporters, but now in its second year it is looking to create a permanent space that can be used by theatre companies.

A crowd-funding page has been created ro raise a small amount of money for carpentry, building, plumbing, electrical work and some painting and decoration.

All money will be spent engaging local contractors to carry out the work.

Artistic Director James Weisz said: “We want to be the best for our community, so we are asking the community for help”.

You can join in and provide support, from as little as £5, and receive a reward for your philanthropy.

Emporium is also becoming a Community Interest Company (CIC), which means that every penny earned goes back into the business to ensure that the venue operates successfully for the local community.

They have a few weeks to raise the money to ensure that the venue can operate with a full programme of events in 2015.

Brian Capron
Brian Capron will play Dr Prentice in ‘What the Butler Saw’

The Theatre will re-open with a staging of What The Butler Saw starring Coronation Street star Brian Capron from April 25 to May 9. Joe Orton’s final play is a hilarious farce which revolves around Dr. Prentice, a psychiatrist attempting to seduce his attractive prospective secretary, Geraldine Barclay. As part of the job interview he convinces her to undress. When his wife enters, he attempts to cover up his activity by hiding the girl behind a curtain. His wife, however, is also being seduced and blackmailed by a Nicholas Beckett. She therefore promises Nicholas the post as secretary, which adds further confusion, including Nicholas and Geraldine dressing as the opposite sex. Dr. Prentice’s clinic is then faced with a government inspection… What follows is a near faultless piece of theatrical invention as these ingredients form the basis for a perfect recipe of outrageous confusion!

You will find Emporium at 88 London Road, Brighton, BN1 4JF

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