Bette Bourne Read My Hips

Hold on to your asps, come up the Nile and into the queer world of Constantine Cavafy, the celebrated poet. Joined by friend, novelist EM Forster, Cavafy explores the underbelly of Alexandria in Egypt circa. 1915. Part documentary, part tissue of lies, Read My Hips is a new play that combines the sublime erotic poetry of Cavafy with the cheapest laughs in town!

Bloolips serve up a marvellous, vaudevillian goulash…lush, evocative glamour worthy of Ken Russell’s fever-dream best!

QX Magazine

Written by Ray Dobbins
Directed and performed by Bette Bourne with Lavinia co-op, Sebastien Teller, and John Gould
Designed by Robin Whitmore