A Life in Three Acts

Previously in three parts, this award-winning, sell-out show is now presented in a single 90-minute performance.

Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Herald, The Scotsman, Sunday Times

Winner of a Fringe First and Herald Archangel Award – Edinburgh 2009

'A living legend...charming, funny...an inspired occasion and in its final segment, lump-in-the-throat moving. This is living, breathing history, naughty bits and all, of the kind you never find in the history books.' Guardian

With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright Mark Ravenhill about his life. The story moves from a post-war childhood, to the Gay Liberation Front, life in a drag commune and on to the creation of the ground breaking Bloolips company and beyond. The piece marks a different series of events in Bette's life to reveal a portrait of an amazing individual and celebration of the momentous struggles and achievements of gay liberation.

The performance is based on edited transcripts of a series of long, private conversations, a recreation on stage of two friends reminiscing about one of their lives.

8 - 27 February Soho Theatre, London
Presented as part of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History Month
Media Partner: London Evening Standard

4 - 28 March St Ann's Warehouse, New York