Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

Mark Farrelly’s hugely acclaimed solo play has delighted audiences across the country, and now comes to the White Bear for an up close encounter with the original Englishman in New York. Naked Hope depicts the legendary Quentin Crisp at two distinct phases of his extraordinary life. Firstly in the late 1960s in his filthy Chelsea flat (“Don’t lose your nerve: after the first four years the dust won’t get any worse”). Here Quentin surveys a lifeti...