Discover who you are. And be it. Like mad!

Quentin Crisp was a unique wit and raconteur, and one of the most memorable public figures of the twentieth century. Flamboyantly gay as early as the 1930s, Quentin spent decades being beaten up on the streets of London, but stayed resolute to his determination to be himself. After achieving fame when portrayed by John Hurt in the classic film The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin moved to America and became an international treasure.

Mark Farrelly’s hit solo play comes to the intimate setting of the Bridge House following an Off-West End season and year-long UK tour. It depicts Quentin at two distinct phases of his extraordinary life: alone in his Chelsea flat in the 1960s, stoically certain that life and love have passed him by (“I’ve come to the end of my personality”) and thirty years later, with the new millennium beckoning, giving a sold-out performance of his one man show An Evening with Quentin Crisp in New York. Packed with witty gems on everything from cleaning (“Don’t bother…after the first four years the dirt won’t get any worse”) to marriage (“Is there life after marriage? The answer is no”), the script delivers the very best of Quentin Crisp, whose ‘message of hope’ about the urgent necessity to be your true self is more relevant than ever in an age of bland conformity and identikit social media profiles.