What's Wrong With Angry? - King's Head Theatre
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
HARTSHORN-Hook Productions is presenting Patrick Wilde’s What’s Wrong With Angry? at the King’s Head Theatre – from July 8 to August 15, 2009.
What’s Wrong With Angry?, returning to London after its success at the Edinburgh Festival 2008, is described as a funny, heart-breaking and ultimately triumphant tale of courage and defiance in which two beautiful boys fall in love at a time when that love is a crime.
What’s Wrong With Angry? combines politics, humour, a pumping soundtrack and a heart breaking love story. It has sold out almost everywhere it has played, and was described by Time Out as “popular theatre at it’s best – a real crowd pleaser”.
Although it tells of a time when, in theory, things were much tougher for young gay people, it still stands as a celebration of the human spirit and determination to triumph. This slicker, shorter version directed by Wilde himself, remains a poignant reminder of how recently things were very different.
When Wilde wrote What’s Wrong With Angry?, the age of consent for gay men was twenty one and section 28 was on the statute books. The play, and the subsequent film version, Get Real, were part of a political movement which eventually led to the equalisation of the age of consent and the abandonment of the law that prevented promotion of homosexuality as a positive life style.
Wilde has been openly gay for thirty years and has been part of the huge change in the gay political, cultural and social scene. As one of the most sought after writers in TV, he has made it his mission to assimilate gay characters into many main stream television shows, including EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City, The Bill, Peak Practice and Monarch of the Glen, as well as the cult hits As If and This Life.
Tickets: £15, £12.50 concessions.
Times: Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Saturday and Sunday at 3.30pm.