The Chemsex Monologues
By (Author) Patrick Cash
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
1st August 2016
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
822.92
Paperback
72
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 6mm
80g
A nameless narrator meets a sexy boy on a Vauxhall night out, who introduces him to Gs pleasures; a club night poster boy gets taken to Old Mother Meths place by a porn star; Fag Hag Cath is finding the chillouts have become more about the sex; Daniel is a sexual health worker who does community outreach in the saunas; and Robs snorting mephedrone off a framed photograph of his parents' 25th wedding anniversary.
Energy, humour and emotion This is a vital show that refuses to moralise about its characters. * Boyz Magazine *
Seventy minutes of gold-standard theatre There is not a single weak link in this chain. * QX Magazine *
The Chemsex Monologues is an extraordinary apestry of pleasure and pain, woven together with wit and weight by a master wordsmith. * Gay Times *
The Chemsex Monologues might well be the desperately needed conversation starter weve been waiting for. * Dazed & Confused *
Patrick Cash writes for the theatre and is a contributing editor to Attitude and Vice. He was named 'One to Watch' on the Independent on Sunday's Rainbow List as a playwright.