Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
After the Act - cover

After the Act

Billy Barrett, Ellice Stevens

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

Abseiling lesbians! Queers in classrooms! Perverts panicking parents!
Thatcher's Section 28, which banned the 'promotion' of homosexuality in schools, was the landmark legislation that silenced a generation, offered a global blueprint for LGBTQ+ oppression and galvanised a movement.
Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens's After the Act is a funny, camp and unapologetically queer musical about how a moral panic gripped a nation – and a community decided to fight back. Its inspiring, often heartbreaking, stories of teachers, students and activists impacted by the legislation are accompanied by a joyously exuberant score written by Frew and inspired by the music of the 1980s.
It was first produced in 2023 by the award-winning theatre and film company Breach at New Diorama Theatre, London, before performances during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and a UK tour in 2024.
Available since: 11/07/2024.
Print length: 88 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • New Year New Love - cover

    New Year New Love

    Casper Graham

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Vance Waller can't believe his luck. It's a week before Thanksgiving, and he has to travel more than three hours to meet up with a client just because his supervisor is too lazy to do it. To make matter worse, his crappy car has to die on him, and he's stuck in a small town called Pontybridge, which is forty-five minutes away from his destination. As if that isn't bad enough, there's a snowstorm.
    Vance's luck improves when Brett Griffiths, the attractive owner of the bed and breakfast in town, approaches him and helps tow his car away. His luck continues to become better when Talon Patterson, a handsome and successful lawyer, comes to stay at the B&B.
    There's an instant attraction between the three of them, and the sexual tension is intense. However, there's a big problem. Both Vance and Talon live in San Francisco while Brett resides in Pontybridge. Vance is also having issues at work, and he knows he needs to resolve that.
    Can the three men find a way to make their relationship work?
    Show book
  • Heat Wave: Sunapee - cover

    Heat Wave: Sunapee

    Nanisi Barrett D'Arnuk

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Nicole never really came out as a lesbian to her friends, family, and colleagues, and now her relationship with Katie is on the rocks. Katie is tired of being a "dirty secret" and moves out of their shared apartment on a hot Friday in August. Devastated, Nicole goes to her grandmother's farm on the shores of Lake Sunapee, a safe place where she spent happy summer holidays as a child.
    Nicole hopes for a quiet weekend to reflect, but between her gran's new lodger, the sexy redhead Melissa, and Sally and Bud, two of Nicole's childhood friends, she is quickly roped into an evening's entertainment at the Lodge Saturday evening. Her well-meaning friends try to fix her up with a guy, and in the heat of the moment she blurts out she is a lesbian. 
    Havoc ensues. But in a conversation with her grandmother, Nicole begins to understand her secret hasn't been hidden as well as she thought, and she learns she isn't the first lesbian in her family. 
    With the new sense of freedom that comes from being true to herself, she has only one thing to wish for, and that is to reach Katy and make amends. But is it too late?
    Show book
  • Actress The: The Curious Case of Cordelia Wainwright - cover

    Actress The: The Curious Case of...

    Kimberly J.M. Wilson

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    What happens when an eccentric, germophobic actress with an excessive need for cleanliness meets her messy match? A very untraditional Opposites-Attract sapphic romance that not even Hollywood—or Shakespeare—could script. 
    Cordelia Wainwright is a superbly capable actress but a supremely incapable adult, who is plagued by decisions from her past that prevent her from accepting both love and her sexuality. 
    Aubrey Taylor is a bold and vibrant up-and-coming younger actress, who uses both her legs and patience to teach her mentor that love is not a dirty four-letter word but a beautiful gift. 
    When Aubrey speaks; Cordelia listens—often with angst, but mostly with humorous results.
    Show book
  • Silent Fall - An absolutely gripping and unputdownable crime thriller - cover

    Silent Fall - An absolutely...

    Nicky Downes

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    In the quiet tranquillity of a high-rise apartment, a woman lays motionless, her beautiful eyes forever frozen in a timeless stare…
    
     
    When the body of a beautiful and wealthy doctor is discovered in her high-rise apartment – all alone with the doors locked from the inside – nobody can understand how or why her life has been so brutally cut short.
    
     
    Detective Jacqueline “Jack” Kent may have never worked a murder case before, but that’s not going to stop her trying. It seems Ana’s murderer may have scaled the ten-story building to get in – and Jack should know. As an elite climber herself, it’s a set of skills that only a handful of people have. This can’t be the killer’s first innocent victim, and if Jack doesn’t act fast, it won’t be their last.
    
     
    Jack throws herself into the investigation, determined to beat the twisted climber at their own game. But the crime scene prompts harrowing memories for Jack, who’s still haunted by the death of her best friend Hannah, killed on a mountain only months before. Jack lived that day while Hannah died beside her. Night after night, she relives her friend’s final moments in her dreams.
    
     
    When the body of another victim is found, it’s clear that someone evil is trying to get Jack’s attention. Could the killer be one of her own close circle of friends from childhood? As the lines between her personal and professional life blur, Jack must confront the demons of her own past to stop a cold-blooded killer from striking again.
    
     
    Detective Jack Kent is a heroine who grabs you and doesn’t let go. The first in an unputdownable new crime thriller series, perfect for readers who adore Angela Marsons, Rachel McLean and Sally Rigby.
    
     
    What readers are saying about Silent Fall:
    
     
    “Jack Kent is a standout character… the tension is palpable… the story takes unexpected turns, leading to a jaw-dropping conclusion that will leave you stunned… impossible to put down.” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    
     
    “Kept me gripped from first to last page.” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    
     
    “Left me wanting more!” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    
     
    “The culprit wasn't even on my maybe list!” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    
     
    "A really, really great read.” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    
     
    “An excellent and intense story. Lots of twists and turns… Loved it!” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    
     
    “Drew me in from the first page.” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    
     
    “Wow what a book… I could not put it down.” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    
     
    "An electrifying mystery that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. With a gripping plot filled with murder, intrigue, and suspense… will leave you guessing until the very end.” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Show book
  • Last Barrel - cover

    Last Barrel

    Stacy Lynn Miller

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Sometimes winning comes at a high price. 
     
     
     
    Three years after Whiskey War, Dax and Rose live the high life at the Foster House, running the poshest speakeasy on the west coast. Half Moon Bay is about to claim its place as the top tourist destination in Northern California, with a second club and the remodeled Seaside Hotel under Grace Parsons's ownership and Dax's management. Repeal of Prohibition is on the horizon with the prospect of making their illegal liquor businesses legitimate. Dax's fractured friendship with Charlie Dawson is the only blowback from her battle with Frankie Wilkes. If she could fix it, her life with Rose would be perfect. 
     
     
     
    Or so Dax thinks until an election sweeps in Roy Wilkes as the new county sheriff. With the law behind him, he's hellbent on revenge for the death of his brother in the wake of the whiskey war and puts everyone involved in his crosshairs. On day one, he wreaks havoc in Half Moon Bay with arrests and beatings. Nothing is off the table. No one close to Dax and Rose is safe, and they must leverage every resource to protect the people they love. How far will Dax go? Will beating Wilkes at his game come at too high a price? Who will survive to open the last barrel?
    Show book
  • Two Pillars Position - cover

    Two Pillars Position

    J.M. Snyder

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Vic works out at the same gym where Matt is employed as a swim instructor.
    
    
    Some mornings, Vic stops by the gym to bench-press a few thousand pounds, show off for his fellow bodybuilders, and spend some time with his lover before he has to start his day.
    
    
    A quickie in the pool showers seems like a good way to get the blood pumping, but what power will a position called "Two Pillars" give Vic?
    Show book