Fri, Feb 04
|New York
'A Very Great Mischief' at Theater for the New City
Time & Location
Feb 04, 2022, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM EST
New York, 155 1st Ave., New York, NY 10003, USA
About the Event
*The February 4th, 7:30pm performance of A Very Great Mischief will be filmed for airing at the NZ Fringe and Brighton Fringe Festivals. Please note, this performance will be amended to accomodate the recording.
Written by emerging playwright Laura Anthony (they/them), A Very Great Mischief tells the story of two British families turned upside down by the discovery that homoerotic tendencies are not exclusively male, no matter what the laws of Great Britain might declare.
The events which occur in this comedy of manners are inspired by the true story of a resolution to add 'acts of indecency by females' to then already-extant buggery laws of Great Britain. The clause was presented in August 1921 to amend Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, which was used to send Oscar Wilde to prison in 1895, for ‘committing acts of gross indecency with male persons. Such an amendment was…
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