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Preview: I Am Not Myself These Days, Liverpool Playhouse

• 26th Jan 2016

Tom Stuart’s performance in his own adaptation of the best-selling memoir became one of the talking points of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2015. Audiences were visibly moved by the story of alcoholic drag queen Aqua desperately trying to make a relationship work with Jack, a high-class rent boy addicted to crack.

A fast-paced one-man show that is by turns brutal, funny and heartbreaking, the play is a gripping tale of love and self-discovery set amidst the hedonistic excesses of 1990’s New York. Adapted for the stage from Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s New York Times Bestseller, it’s a darkly humorous autobiographical story of a young New Yorker’s unconventional journey to self-acceptance while living a daring dual life.

Commenting on the adaptation, Stuart says “it’s such an incredibly honest, open and engaging book. I wanted to see if I could extend that honesty to the stage and make an audience feel how I felt reading the book alone in my bed. I like to think of it as a love story, albeit an unconventional one. Although set in a specific time and place, I think most people will be able to relate to and recognise something of themselves in it, whatever their background or circumstances.”

The play hits Merseyside in February directed by Nick Bagnall, associate director at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.

Venue info:

Liverpool Playhouse Williamson Square L1 1EL
2 – 6 February 7.45pm (5.45pm Wed 3, Sat 6 at 2pm and 7.45pm)
£16 evenings / £14 matinee
0151 709 4776