Brian Butler looks forward to Musical Theatre and dancing Heaven
Brian Butler looks forward to Musical Theatre and dancing Heaven
Brian Butler talks to Mark Farrelly about Queer icons Quentin Crisp, Derek Jarman and his fight against mental illness
Brian Butler sees a great Queer icon recreated on stage
Brian Butler unveils this year’s shortlist for the prize honouring queer filmmaker Derek Jarman
JARMAN’S HOME AND GARDEN SAVED
Fashion designer Sandy Powell’s Bafta suit fundraising for Derek Jarman’s cottage
A prestigious Blue Plaque was unveiled in London on February 19 to commemorate the avant-garde film-maker, and LGBT+ activist Derek Jarman on the 25th anniversary of his death from HIV in 1994.
Anniversaries can be peculiar events. Is it ever clear what exactly we’re remembering or commemorating? In the case of a death are we reminding ourselves of the loss we feel? In which case is the anniversary very much about the self? Or do we genuinely commemorate the life, although gone, once magnificently lived?
Chris Goode’s adaptation of Derek Jarman and James Whaley’s Jubilee is a ravenously sex-fueled and unvarnished representation of the state that the world is in. It assures to have one question if royalty or religion are still relevant in an ever-changing society.
