SweetStream - UK online November 2020
Melbourne Fringe Festival - 12-14, 16-18, 26-29 November 2020
Backstage is a lonely place
Step into the green room with Lady Christina as she leaves the stage after another performance in another venue above another pub. It could be your last chance to see her, but then she's said that so many times before, why should you believe her this time?
Because tonight is different. Drag has become a drag. Christina is tired of metro-sexual audiences looking for something a little risqué that they can tell their mothers about, she's tired of young drag queens who make it look so easy, and she's tired of having to put on the make up and become someone else every night.
But what's buried beneath the make-up? Chris Laneghan has been Lady Christina for so long that he doesn't know where she ends and he begins. How can he give up being her, if there's no him to go back to?
And why did Christina come into his life in the first place? Sometimes drag is not just put on to entertain an audience.
Leave the glamour and the costumes behind, and get to know the person behind the make up.
Because tonight is different. Drag has become a drag. Christina is tired of metro-sexual audiences looking for something a little risqué that they can tell their mothers about, she's tired of young drag queens who make it look so easy, and she's tired of having to put on the make up and become someone else every night.
But what's buried beneath the make-up? Chris Laneghan has been Lady Christina for so long that he doesn't know where she ends and he begins. How can he give up being her, if there's no him to go back to?
And why did Christina come into his life in the first place? Sometimes drag is not just put on to entertain an audience.
Leave the glamour and the costumes behind, and get to know the person behind the make up.
Your green room invitation is pending...
...and you don't need to leave the house to get there.
Following sell-out live shows in Surbiton and Brighton (yes, live performances have happened this year!) and a live link up with MarshStream Festival in California, Make-up is now coming to the increasingly large small screen. In the UK it's part of SweetStream's Brighton Fringe Reloaded programme, available throughout November, and in Australia it's part of the digital strand of Melbourne Fringe. So wherever you are in the world, we can be right there with you, and you don't have to have to worry about breaching social distancing!
Following sell-out live shows in Surbiton and Brighton (yes, live performances have happened this year!) and a live link up with MarshStream Festival in California, Make-up is now coming to the increasingly large small screen. In the UK it's part of SweetStream's Brighton Fringe Reloaded programme, available throughout November, and in Australia it's part of the digital strand of Melbourne Fringe. So wherever you are in the world, we can be right there with you, and you don't have to have to worry about breaching social distancing!
Christina's Crew of Creatives
Make-up is brought to you by NoLogoProductions. The team for this production are;
Lady Christina: Moj Taylor
Writer: Andy Moseley
Directed by: Andy Moseley and Moj Taylor
Sound and Light: Emma Burton
Photography: Bethany Blake
Lady Christina: Moj Taylor
Writer: Andy Moseley
Directed by: Andy Moseley and Moj Taylor
Sound and Light: Emma Burton
Photography: Bethany Blake
Other NoLogoProductions
Our other productions include A Beginner's Guide to Populism, After We Danced, Boxes, Casual Encounters and Are You Lonesome Tonight?
A Beginner's Guide to Populism;
'All of the actors are excellent in this smartly-paced show. It is expertly conceived, written and executed by a team who plainly have an eye for the socio-political zeitgeist. Echoes of the present resonate throughout – references to sex pests, contempt for experts, the invitation to build a wall - all delivered with wry humour and witty lines. A thoroughly entertaining play.' Buxton Fringe Review
After We Danced;
'If you are looking for a play that has warmth, examines the human condition, with some fine lines and performances from talented actors, then this could be the new play for you.' Remote Goat
Boxes;
'A smartly written, emotionally engaging piece. Emily Florence Hutchings and Moj Taylor have to portray a relationship in reverse, undoing the idea of years of built-up resentment to become a loving and hopeful young couple again, which they do brilliantly.' Reviews Hub
Casual Encounters;
'Simultaneously timely and timeless. Scott-Lucas' ageing horndog was an excellent realisation of a mid-life crisis. Eyers and Meyer both exude a cocksure menace as they interrupt the Rogers' world. All led by a diamond-sharp direction and story structure.' View from the Gods
Are You Lonesome Tonight?;
'The life and death of Elvis informs the drama in a fascinating way. A very interesting performance' On the Fringe
A Beginner's Guide to Populism;
'All of the actors are excellent in this smartly-paced show. It is expertly conceived, written and executed by a team who plainly have an eye for the socio-political zeitgeist. Echoes of the present resonate throughout – references to sex pests, contempt for experts, the invitation to build a wall - all delivered with wry humour and witty lines. A thoroughly entertaining play.' Buxton Fringe Review
After We Danced;
'If you are looking for a play that has warmth, examines the human condition, with some fine lines and performances from talented actors, then this could be the new play for you.' Remote Goat
Boxes;
'A smartly written, emotionally engaging piece. Emily Florence Hutchings and Moj Taylor have to portray a relationship in reverse, undoing the idea of years of built-up resentment to become a loving and hopeful young couple again, which they do brilliantly.' Reviews Hub
Casual Encounters;
'Simultaneously timely and timeless. Scott-Lucas' ageing horndog was an excellent realisation of a mid-life crisis. Eyers and Meyer both exude a cocksure menace as they interrupt the Rogers' world. All led by a diamond-sharp direction and story structure.' View from the Gods
Are You Lonesome Tonight?;
'The life and death of Elvis informs the drama in a fascinating way. A very interesting performance' On the Fringe
Thanks to...
NoLogoProductions would like to thank Andrew Jefferson-Tierney for the idea that developed into the original short version of the play, Catherine Exposito, Arron Usher and Blazing Hyena for being the first people to put that version before an audience at a scratch night and for the suggestions that played a vital part in getting the ball rolling on the longer version, Breakwater Theatre for commissioning the writing of the longer version, Jayne Williams and New Perspectives Theatre Company for mentoring and support with the final script, and Bethany Blake for the superb photos. Also thanks to all at Leith Depot for use of their venue for rehearsals and to A New International for permission to use Let us not Speak of Sin in the trailer for the play.
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