Outlander's John Bell to star in queer coming of age story THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME

Making his exciting stage debut, Outlander’s John Bell has been cast in multi award-winning Off-Broadway hit The Night Larry Kramer Kissed  Me, directed by Steven Dexter, running at the New Wimbledon Theatre from 3-26 February 2022. 

After attending a performance of Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart, a young man’s life is changed forever thanks to the power of theatre. This heart-warming, coming of age story follows the life of a young actor – his call to gay pride and activism in New York during the onset  of HIV/AIDS in the 80s. 

Broken up into a series of stories, Drake abstractly documents a gay man's journey of self discovery. From the late-night club crawl to the buff-bunny gyms, from the threat of anti-gay violence to the place where condemnation, compromises and closets are a thing of the past, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me exposes the sexual, spiritual, and political yearnings at the heart of gay America shared by a whole generation of gay men and women. 

David Drake said: “I am so honoured that the producers have been so diligent about producing  the first revival of my play in London since I premiered it there at the Kings Head Pub in 1994.  And I am absolutely thrilled that the extraordinary young actor John Bell will be bringing these words and stories to life. The landscape for queer people has changed and improved  immeasurably since I created The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me as an extension of my AIDS and  gay rights activisim 30 years ago. But as Larry himself reminded us many times, we must  continue to tell, understand, and ultimately value our stories so that the tragedy of this history  does not repeat itself. Indeed, to quote the poem by Auden from which Larry claimed the title for The Normal Heart, “We must love one another or die.”