Mark Ravenhill

Six days, five shows, some dancers and a requiem

February 12, 2010

After Monday’s attendance at Richmond Theatre for Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, this has turned into a theatre-packed week. On Tuesday, I went to the Soho Theatre to review gay theatre legend Bette Bourne being ‘interviewed’ by Mark Ravenhill. The inverted commas are because, although the evening was based on transcripts of interview conversations between the […]

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A Life in Three Acts

February 10, 2010

Now aged 70, gay actor Bette Bourne, gloriously bedecked in what he terms his “Golders Green drag”, delivers an inspirational evening as he recounts stories from his life in response to gentle prodding from Mark Ravenhill. A condensed version of last year’s scripted conversations, originally spread over three nights, the structure does tend to hamstring […]

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