 'She was a strong, black 39 year-old, he was
nineteen, white and nubile...' It's not easy being beautiful. Join The Boy as he exposes
his inspirational life story. From an explosion of group love in a caravan park on the
outskirts of Winnipeg, via loving, losing and modelling in New York City and
self-exploration with a number one single in Papua New Guinea; The Boy reveals the journey
to The Man he is today: innocence, global adoration, Germaine Greer, a blue whale and
Sinitta. It's emotional. Written and performed by Richard Crawley. www.freefestival.co.uk
‘A boy is
only a boy for a very brief space. He has to be old enough to be capable of sexual
response but not yet old enough to shave. This window of opportunity is not only
narrow, it is mostly illegal.’ - Germaine Greer
Inspired by Germaine
Greer’s book of the same name, The Boy is an extraordinary life-story that tackles
the cutting edge of gender and identity crisis. A piece of one-man story-telling
that follows the treacherous journey of a young boy to manhood. From innocence,
through global adoration, objectification, a blue whale and Sinitta to The Man he is
today. Physical, energetic and daringly inspirational. Sometimes beauty is a cross
to bear.
‘When I think back
to the first time in my childhood when I saw that face, I thought right then, that’s
a real good-looking boy.’
Real Good-looking Boy,
The Who
‘I don’t need
no seven stone weakling, no boy who thinks he’s a girl’ So Macho, Sinitta
Richard Crawley, writer
and performer
In a first foray to the
Edinburgh Festival, The Boy is one of three shows that Richard is involved with this year
(Magicians! Behind the Magic!!, Just the Tonic, Of Women and Horses I have known,
Underbelly). Richard trained at Cambridge University, LAMDA and most recently at
Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris.
(“Magicians!
Is a show that has stuck in my mind for weeks. It isn’t so much that it’s
funny as that it’s unexpectedly funny. That shift from embarrassing,
pretentious camp to poignant surrealism is a big, but deeply satisfying one at the same
time.” John Wright, Told-by-an-idiot) |
