Written and directed by Adam Zane
Starring Erin Shanagher
WINNER – POPULAR CHOICE AWARD – BUXTON THEATRE FESTIVAL
NOMINATED – BEST ACTRESS – DUBLIN GAY THEATRE AWARDS
NOMINATED – BEST PLAY – SALFORD THEATRE AWARDS
30 June 2008 Kings Head Theatre, Islington 1.00pm / 7.30pm
By special arrangement with the Kings Head Theatre, the hit play ‘Yesterday when I was Young’ comes to London. This Award-winning comedy tells the outrageous, true story of Josie Pickering as she discovers Manchester’s Gay Village and transforms from desperate housewife to dominatrix Madame. Queer As Folk’s Adam Zane created the play from interviews with Josie, now in her seventies and has captured a valuable oral history of the Gay scene through the decades.
Erin Shanagher recreates Josie’s remarkable life and her journey to the glittering dance floors of Manchester’s Canal Street in the 1960s. With her friend Brenda in tow, Josie finds the twilight world of the butches and the femmes and unashamedly embraces her sexuality. While Brenda is on holiday, Josie gets an offer that will change her life forever – and earns her a fiver! So begins Josie’s transformation into a whip-cracking mistress of the night and a new life of whips, slaves and a little bit of cling-film…
Hope Theatre Company are returning to the Kings Head Theatre after last year’s hit Judy Garland musical ‘Get Happy!’ ‘Yesterday, when I was Young’ comes to London as part of a tour that has travelled to Edinburgh, Manchester and Dublin.
Hope Theatre Company was set up in 2004 by writer/director Adam Zane. After acting in shows such as Queer as Folk, Shameless and Fat Friends, it was the play The Laramie Project that inspired Adam to set up Hope and develop verbatim theatre – the process of using people’s real words to create theatre. Yesterday, when I was Young was created from over fifty interviews with Josie Pickering.
Josie has been the subject of numerous documentaries including Britain’s Greatest Love Stories (ITV) and It’s Not Unusual (Channel 4).
Adam says, “Josie is an amazing woman…she’s even given me some of her old whips and canes to use as props. She’s proud of who she is and what she’s done with her life, she’s an inspiration.”
Josie certainly has no qualms about her past, “I wish I could still do it, I’d do it again tomorrow if I could, but I probably wouldn’t get into the gear now!”
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ERIN SHANAGHER AS JOSIE PICKERING |
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London
Venue: The Kings Head, Islington
Dates: 30th June 2008
Time: 1pm & 7:30pm
Ticket price: £6 / £8
Venue box office : www.seetickets.com
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