Resident Alien
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Opened Jan 18, 2001
Closed Mar 10, 2001
Opened Jan 18, 2001
Closed Mar 10, 2001
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Bette Bourne (of Bloolips fame) plays Quentin Crisp in the American premiere of Resident Alien, a play based on the life, writings, and musings of the famous "naked civil servant." Written by Tim Fountain, the play imagines Crisp on a recent day, not long before his death, holed up in his East Village quarters awaiting the arrival of two visitors to whom he is to grant an interview in exchange for lunch -- by all accounts, a standard routine for Mr. Crisp. As the show proceeds, an inner view of the man behind the mascara is revealed through his ruminations on life, love, and the 20th century. Mike Bradwell directs.
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What an incredible, larger-than-life story there is behind Resident Alien, the heartfelt, one man show saluting the late, great writer-actor Quentin Crisp that is now playing at New York Theatre Workshop. In November of 1999, Crisp--then 90 years old--made a trip home to England to star in his one-man show An Evening with Quentin Crisp; he had not been back to his native country since his immigration to America in 1981. At the very same time, in London, Bette Bourne was opening in Resident Alien, Tim Fountain's one-man play about Crisp. A joint press conference with Bourne and Crisp was arranged. But on November 21, mere days before his show was to open, Crisp died in his sleep. No joint [...]