Mother Clap's Molly House
The black comedy moves between 18th-century London, where Mother Clap’s molly house serves a gay subculture, and a 2001 party organized by a group of gay men, exploring the diversity of human sexuality.
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The black comedy moves between 18th-century London, where Mother Clap’s molly house serves a gay subculture, and a 2001 party organized by a group of gay men, exploring the diversity of human sexuality.
Actors rehearse Caliban’s Day, a fictional 1972 meeting between W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten. Britten, composing Death in Venice, wants to discuss the opera’s troubling themes, while Auden assumes he has come for a libretto; the rehearsal’s actors and stage manager repeatedly break character to debate the play, artistic craft and the failings of its famous subjects.
The black comedy moves between 18th-century London, where Mother Clap’s molly house serves a gay subculture, and a 2001 party organized by a group of gay men, exploring the diversity of human sexuality.
Actors rehearse Caliban’s Day, a fictional 1972 meeting between W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten. Britten, composing Death in Venice, wants to discuss the opera’s troubling themes, while Auden assumes he has come for a libretto; the rehearsal’s actors and stage manager repeatedly break character to debate the play, artistic craft and the failings of its famous subjects.