Backstage is a lonely place
Make-up - Brighton Fringe 11-13 June (and more festivals soon - we hope...)
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 there's more than one way to accept.
If you want to turn up in person, we're bringing Make-up to Rialto Theatre, Brighton from 11 to 13 June 2021. Tickets are on sale now from Brighton Fringe Box Office.
If you'd like to see the show and can't wait for Brighton or any the other festivals the show may be on at this year, have no hope of any festivals actually taking place or know that any festivals that do take place are going to be nowhere near you, there is always streaming.
Following sell-out live shows in Surbiton and Brighton last year (yes, live performances did happen in 2020!) and a live link up with MarshStream Festival in California, Make-up came to the increasingly large small screen as part of SweetStream's Brighton Fringe Reloaded programme, and as part of the digital strand of Melbourne Fringe.
While it's no longer available on either of those platforms, as with everything these days, it still remains somewhere out there on the internet, so if you want to see the recording, please head over to our contact us page, send us a message, and we'll let you know how you can see the show.
Alternatively, sign up for our newsletter on the same page, and we'll let you know dates for the live show as soon as they're announced, if not a few days before!
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!
If you want to turn up in person, we're bringing Make-up to Rialto Theatre, Brighton from 11 to 13 June 2021. Tickets are on sale now from Brighton Fringe Box Office.
If you'd like to see the show and can't wait for Brighton or any the other festivals the show may be on at this year, have no hope of any festivals actually taking place or know that any festivals that do take place are going to be nowhere near you, there is always streaming.
Following sell-out live shows in Surbiton and Brighton last year (yes, live performances did happen in 2020!) and a live link up with MarshStream Festival in California, Make-up came to the increasingly large small screen as part of SweetStream's Brighton Fringe Reloaded programme, and as part of the digital strand of Melbourne Fringe.
While it's no longer available on either of those platforms, as with everything these days, it still remains somewhere out there on the internet, so if you want to see the recording, please head over to our contact us page, send us a message, and we'll let you know how you can see the show.
Alternatively, sign up for our newsletter on the same page, and we'll let you know dates for the live show as soon as they're announced, if not a few days before!
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!
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Christina's Crew of Creatives
Make-up is brought to you by NoLogoProductions. The team for this production is; Lady Christina: Moj Taylor Writer: Andy Moseley Directed by: Andy Moseley and Moj Taylor Sound and Light: Emma Burton Photography: Bethany Blake |
More to see and read
Want to see some behind the scenes footage of lockdown rehearsals? Click here Want to read about why Drag Race divides opinion amongst drag artists and fans? Click here Venue or promoter interested in finding out more about the show and maybe bringing it to your venue? Click here Want to know more about Lady Christina, the man behind her and the parents behind both of them? Click here |
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 a trailer for the play that is still to be made...
