⭐ BOY OUT THE CITY – WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY DECLAN BENNETT – WEST END TRANSFER ANNOUNCED – LYRIC THEATRE – SEPTEMBER 2023 ⭐
The critically-acclaimed BOY OUT THE CITY is set for a West End transfer, it has been announced.
Paul Taylor-Mills presents a Queer season in the West End, with BLOODY ELLE and BOY OUT THE CITY. For a limited season, this September, the Lyric Theatre will host these two new pieces of work, which have received rave reviews from this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
BOY OUT THE CITY premiered in 2021 at Westival Music and Arts Festival followed by a London premiere at the Turbine Theatre. For the past 2 years, audiences up and down the UK have been praising this hilarious, revealing and deeply tender play.
Created out of writing from his own private journals, Declan Bennett (recently returned from Broadway in Moulin Rouge), reflects on surviving the streets of Coventry in a NAF NAF jacket, discovering the Gay scene in 90’s Soho, and confronting his Catholic school days.
After moving out of London to wait out the final months of the pandemic initially with his boyfriend, Declan unexpectedly finds himself alone in the Oxfordshire countryside. In his isolation, he is forced to face the demons of his past on a messy journey through the turbulent world of toxic masculinity, homophobia, and men’s mental health.
From the lonely aisles of Hobbycraft to the bright lights of New York City, this is the story of a man in desperate search of identity when confronted with sudden unexpected solitude.
A raw and humorous autobiographical play exploring toxic masculinity, homophobia, and mental health.
BOY OUT THE CITY is written & performed by Declan Bennett, co-created & directed by Nancy Sullivan, with lighting design by Robbie Butler and sound design by Max Pappenheim.
Produced by Lauren Reed Productions.
BOY OUT THE CITY will play the Lyric Theatre, running from 27th – 30th September 2023, with tickets on sale now.
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