Herald Angel Award Winner Grant Smeaton, transmutes into a spectrum of multi-coloured sexuality as seen through the eyes of five middle-aged characters. Smeaton riotously transforms sex and sexuality before your eyes and asks the question - where does our sexuality begin and end? Read more …
Written by Martin O’Connor and partly devised through personal accounts from the LGBT community, of growing up through the sexually ambiguous 70s and beyond.
Time may change me; But I can’t trace time.
This is an excellent piece of conversational theatre, full of life and humour, which, socially and spiritually, strikes at the heart of contemporary gay life whilst pitifully looking back to its past.
Again and again, through the various reminiscences comes the thought that times have changed, are more tolerant, more equal. This great-hearted amalgum of resonant texts and superb acting reminds us to appreciate that.
The drama’s focus upon the experiences of men of such different backgrounds, and sexual and gender orientations, makes for a richly varied, poignant and humorous evening’s theatre.
These compelling monologues are suffused with a droll humour engendered by the actor’s empathetic, playful approach. But these are profound expressions of pain and honesty too, of progress made and progress yet to be made, within families and the wider world but often within the troubled individuals themselves.
Damn near perfection, for pretty things of all persuasions.
Grant Smeaton on Martin O'Connor's Ch Ch Changes as part of Glasgay! 2011
Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow from Tuesday October 25, 2011, until Saturday November 12, 2011. More info: www.citz.co.uk
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