Royal Court & The Queer House announce QUEER UPSTAIRS - script in hand performances of new work

Nine new pieces of work, read script-in-hand, will be presented across three evenings in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs from 4-6 November 2021 as part of Queer Upstairs.

New pieces of work will be featured from Enxi Chang, Jamal Gerald, Mika Onyx Johnson, Lauren John Joseph, Nemo Martin, Pete MacHale, mandla rae, Amelia Stubberfield and Yaz Zadeh.

The writers have been working together over a period of five months, through group and individual sessions with writers Travis Alabanza, Hester Chillingworth, Nazareth Hassan and Mark Ravenhill. Making a queer space and holding conversations about the ancestors, forms and images that define their writing has led these artists to create these new pieces of work. 

Co-Artistic Director at The Queer House, Char Boden, said: “We are so happy to have been a part of bringing this group of incredible writers together at the Royal Court. The writers’ previous works have already made a huge contribution to the canon of queer performance work and so to have the chance to be close to whatever this group helps them to create is a privilege.”  

Tickets are on sale now here.