Audition Dates
31 May 2003 – 4 June 2003
May 2003
- Sat 31 May 2003
June 2003
- Sun 1 June 2003
- Mon 2 June 2003
- Tue 3 June 2003
- Wed 4 June 2003
Details
- Playwright
- Julia Britton
- Director
- Robert Chuter
AddressTBC
A KIND OF BEAUTY
[A DARLING OF THE GODS]
By Julia Britton
"Never be ashamed" - Duncan Grant.
GrantÂ’s early lovers were undergraduates from Cambridge including his famous cousin Lytton Strachey, the writer David Garnett and the even more famous economist John Maynard Keynes. Even late in life, commuting between London and Charleston in Sussex, he was still picking up boys on the train and taking them home. Sometimes they were Borstal boys, juveniles who had been in prison. Then friends would say: "Duncan's gone criminal again." English anti-gay laws made Duncan a criminal all through his 92 years of distinguished life, until his death in 1978. In the 1920's Grant was the most famous British artist in the world. And he was not only an easel painter: he designed fabrics, china, furniture, interiors, murals in churches, decors and costumes for theatre and ballet. The Duke of Devonshire recalled him as a delightful companion, with his charm and good looks and said: "It was very easy to understand why so many people, men and women, loved him." He was the favourite painter of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. His reputation is however in abeyance. Duncan was profligate with this generosity, a man who loved to give pleasure with his art, mind and body - in bed and out. A ONE-MAN show.
To be premiered as part of the Charleston Festival in Sussex, England in 2004.
*CASTING
Duncan Grant - English painter from the ages of 18 to 90. Good looking, English accent, energy, charisma, diverse accents, an actor who is confident to hold together a two hour one man performance playing twelve other characters as well as the main role. Nude scene required.
[A DARLING OF THE GODS]
By Julia Britton
"Never be ashamed" - Duncan Grant.
GrantÂ’s early lovers were undergraduates from Cambridge including his famous cousin Lytton Strachey, the writer David Garnett and the even more famous economist John Maynard Keynes. Even late in life, commuting between London and Charleston in Sussex, he was still picking up boys on the train and taking them home. Sometimes they were Borstal boys, juveniles who had been in prison. Then friends would say: "Duncan's gone criminal again." English anti-gay laws made Duncan a criminal all through his 92 years of distinguished life, until his death in 1978. In the 1920's Grant was the most famous British artist in the world. And he was not only an easel painter: he designed fabrics, china, furniture, interiors, murals in churches, decors and costumes for theatre and ballet. The Duke of Devonshire recalled him as a delightful companion, with his charm and good looks and said: "It was very easy to understand why so many people, men and women, loved him." He was the favourite painter of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. His reputation is however in abeyance. Duncan was profligate with this generosity, a man who loved to give pleasure with his art, mind and body - in bed and out. A ONE-MAN show.
To be premiered as part of the Charleston Festival in Sussex, England in 2004.
*CASTING
Duncan Grant - English painter from the ages of 18 to 90. Good looking, English accent, energy, charisma, diverse accents, an actor who is confident to hold together a two hour one man performance playing twelve other characters as well as the main role. Nude scene required.
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