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...signatures. Minter believes that if a fair trial finds Hillery guilty, he should go back to prison. "If you do the crime, you do the time," she says, with the air of someone who has thought about what the words mean: her own stepson is serving time in San Quentin for rape. But the proceedings must be fair, she argues. "There's racism here now, and there was racism back then...
...expecting something interesting, provoking and undoubtably stylish, then An Evening with Quentin Crisp could well provide an amusing alternative to loud larums, noble lords and neurotic princes...
...Quentin Crisp? Quentin Crisp is a 77-year-old Englishman who openly paraded his homosexuality in a country where nobody else did. Few people paid much attention to him until 1976, when his autobiography The Naked Civil Servant was made into a TV drama starring John Hurt, described by Crisp as "my representative on earth". He has been a professional personality ever since...
...what does he actually do on stage? Well, An Evening with Quentin Crisp is divided into two parts...
There is no doubt that Quentin Crisp is a man of great style and great charisma, even though the man is a mass of contradictions. He appears on stage as a writer who performs rather than a performer who writes, and he is much more a wit than a philosopher. Yet at the same time, there is that odd, sensitive, moment when he can silence an audience just as well as he can draw applause...