Check in to Brooklyn Rep's newest gay-basement comedy, a post-panto melodrama with cults, colonics and and Björk.
Brooklyn Rep, The Divine’s award-winning resident (in the basement) theatre company, presents These Gays! They’re Trying To… - a celebration of queer tv meme culture which offers the rollicking colonic so often needed after Christmas.
Can Lindsay Lohan survive The White Lotus Reykjavik?
The brief was simple. These Gays! They’re Trying To… sees four all-star, US and UK-based Brooklyn Rep writers - Nathaniel Foster, David Levesley, reid tang and Colin Waitt - imagine the inevitable Lindsey Lohan-led, Iceland-based fifth season of HBO’s The White Lotus. Also starring Björk, of course. From shamanic rituals to soundbaths, to Eurovision star-led cults, the wealthy worried descend on Reykjavik's finest spa to fix their bodies and their lives.
The theatrical extravaganza is brought to life by an iconic cast of performers with talents ranging from sawism and thereminism to world leading udder-wearing drag. Inspired by Brooklyn Rep’s exciting, elevated work in progress festival Scritches, These Gays!… will see US and UK-based writers paired with stars of London’s Queer performance scene to bring to life this entirely original, hilarious and soon-to-be cult imagining.
From the ‘Best Ensemble Performance’ winning cast at the Edinburgh Fringe, Alice Morgan Richards AKA half-cow half-milkman drag monstrosity Dairy King leads a multi-talented cast of queer, London-based performers. Also populating the rich Reykjavik resort are Shakeel Kimotho (La Cage aux Folles - Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Cats - UK & International Tour) fast rising drag star Marcus Zebra AKA Zeborah, Dan de la Motte (Too Much Pills & Liquor - Brooklyn Rep at The Divine), and thereminist, sawist and composer Jo Fraser.
These Gays! They’re Trying To… will undoubtedly be the best and only White Lotus themed play in the basement of a gay bar during the period between Christmas and New Year, then again after New Year.
Bonkers, Batshit Brilliance… downright ostentatious in the best possible way’- ★★★★★ BingeFringe on All the Fraudulent Horse Girls
Listings
The Divine, Basement, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 8BJ
Friday 27 - Monday 30 December and Thursday 2 - Saturday 4 January; Time: 19:30
Run Time: 1 hour and 40 minutes approx. plus an interval
Tickets: £10 - £20: These Gays! They're Trying To... Tickets