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A Queer History Scratch Night
Thalia Arts Company

Golden Goose Theatre
May 2023

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A queer history scratch night, featuring scenes from exciting emerging writers and creatives, telling the stories of figures from across the LGBTQIA+ community throughout history. The pieces explored and celebrated connections between queer folk from a whole range of people and time periods. Whether you are a history buff looking for a new perspective, or a complete novice just looking for an evening of queer joy, Thalia Arts will have something for you. We have always been here and we want to celebrate and honour those who lived their queer life before us.

The scratch night featured two programmes of 5 scenes, presented in chronological order, where one of the characters in each scene was a queer figure from history. We gave opportunity to over 35 queer writers, directors and actors to work together, network and be creative. We are now engaging with some of these projects in order to bring them to the next stage of development


Thalia Arts are a company dedicated to queering traditional tropes within the fabric of the production and making process, as well as exploring themes of sexuality explicitly. We bring together queer creatives to create comedic and heart-warming theatre centring LGBTQIA+ people and their day-to-day experiences.

Cast (Thursday 25th May)

Cast (Friday 26th May)

Aphrodisia

Writer: Sara Sioufi
Director: Melissa-Kelly Franklin
 

Sappho: Caroline Letelier
Homer: Harry Drane

If there is a man among ye 


Writer: Kelly Long
Director: Hannah Lindstedt


James Bonny: David Olaniregun
Anne Bonn: Chloe Fenwick-Brown
Mary Reade: Emily Millwood

Lapdog


Writer: Laura May Price
Director: Beth Wilson


Virginia Woolf: Nicola Hurst
Eddy Sackville-West: Ethan Joseph-Robert

Olive Trees

Writer: Alex Ansdell
Director: Daria Mazzocchio


Lorca: Ben Mallett
Juan: Jordy Lagbre

A Girl Named Dusty

Writer: Elinora Westfall
Director: Rae Morris


Dusty Springfield: Isobel Fairchild
Teda Bracci: Rosie Twigg
Interviewer: Andrew Hudson

Julie and Daphne


Writer: Kathy Pendrill
Director: Beth Wilson
Julie D'Augibny: Katie Friedli Walton
Daphne: Yasmin Ennis

Dr Barry

Writer: Eleanor Healing
Director: Anna Wellman
Dr Barry: Anna Tolstoy
Maebh: Rosie Hodgeson
Charles Somerset: Freddie Haberfellner

Vine Press


Writer: Jordana Belaiche
Director: Tiarnan Doherty


Kathleen Goddard: Laura May Price
Victor Neuberg: Dom Rawson
Aleister Crowley: Seth Kruger

A Tragedy of Owls

Writer: John Mabey
Director: Daria Mazzocchio


Willem Arondeus: Jamie McClean
Lau Mazreil: Stella von Koskull

Election Night

Writer: Ivo de Jager
Director: Oliver Bates


JFK: Henry Sillman
Lem Billings: Matthew Dunlop

Creative Team

Writer and Lead Creative: Laura May Price

Director and Lead Creative: Beth Wilson

Technician: Ola Przytula

Graphic Designer: Lucy Wilson

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