This September, Marlborough Productions celebrates 15 years of creating and supporting boundary-pushing, cutting-edge queer performance, parties, heritage and radical gatherings. A catalyst for queer culture and community, Marlborough Productions has worked alongside writers, performers, activists, changemakers and more, including Juno Dawson, Travis Alabanza, Harry Clayton-Wright, David Hoyle and Thick & Tight.
The programme has commissioned these new artists to embark on a six-month development period across New Queers on the Block’s national network
Brownton Abbey is an Afro Futuristic Space Party where “queer, black and brown disabled folks reign supreme”
Still buzzing from a jam-packed Brighton Fringe programme and clad in his retro lavender style – a look I’ve come to associate with the man behind the Marly – I sat down with Tarik Elmoutawakil to discuss the challenges and rewards that come with programming queer performance.
