Liberace's Suit

Archive Listings for Liberace's Suit

T687454432 (JERMYN04) Late Night Magic in the West End follows immediately after the show (until Jun 12)Company Anubian Nights Theatre Company. Director Phil Willmott. Design Nigel Hook. Lighting Hans Jorg Schmitt. Costume Julia Morgan. Performer Bobby Crush.
25 May 04 to 19 Jun 04	Jermyn Street Theatre, Inner London :: V207 listing details L01359237445
T718642559 (OVAL02) Script-in-the-hand performance.Director Fiona Watson.
27 Mar 02 to 28 Mar 02	The Oval House, Inner London :: V239 listing details L01924456663

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Play :: The comic-tragedy Liberace's Suit follows the course of American pianist Liberace's 1959 appearance at the Old Bailey in London to pursue a libel action against a journalist from the Daily Mirror newspaper for implying that he was a homosexual. Against the backdrop of the McCarthy era in the USA and the prosecution of several highly placed Naval officer in the UK for homosexual acts, Liberace was forced to defend his reputation and his liberty, exposing the hypocrisy of both Liberace and the times he lived in that forced many gay men to desperate measures.

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Tenebris Light