It’s New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she’s gay. But before she can hit send, her girlfriend Fiona reveals that he has always identified as a man and now wants to start living as one named Adrian.
Although highly informative, certainly from this Cis reviewers perspective, it’s also deeply human and authentic and although the gender transition narrative seems to drive the play, as it comes to a close we see if for what it is, a play about unconditional love, acceptance and the need for change to keep us true to ourselves.
Actor Mark Gatiss, a patron of the national Switchboard, LGBT+ helpline is to appear alongside twenty other performers in a one-night West End gala presentation of the true-life coming-out drama OUTINGS by Matthew Baldwin and Thomas Hescott as part of the Pride in London Festival.
