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@GoodBoyThePlay š @SDAlondon āļø @artistsbrennan. proudly queer, begrudgingly ADHD. No longer active on here, find me on @bluesky
London, UK
Joined April 2011
Five stars for my comedy birthed from the darkest moments of my life. I canāt believe it.
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"Told with wit, pace, sensitivity and unflinching honesty, this hour long show grips from start to finish" #CamdenFringe
https://t.co/KFZtGxxDCs
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A few updates: - some new mugshots by @yellowbellyfoto - Iām currently filming a project for Lionsgate - Iām leaving this hellsite! Find me on @bluesky - https://t.co/hPmtoPHcXa
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A few updates: - some new mugshots by @yellowbellyfoto - Iām currently filming a project for Lionsgate - Iām leaving this hellsite! Find me on @bluesky - https://t.co/hPmtoPHcXa
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Attended a show tonight that was disrupted by @JustStop_Oilā¦ ended up being the most entertaining part about it. Thanks guys!
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Should victims not be able to tell their story for fear of offending? I find it more offensive to tell victims to stay silent or change their story to make it more palatable. But thatās just me, the person who actually lived it. 14/14
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Everything the protagonist experiences, has been lived by most women. I firmly contest the accusation that I conflate homosexuality with child abuse. It is one character who commits this, not all. 13/14
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I first performed Good Boy eight years ago at drama school for my dissertation, then last year at the end of a writersā programme. Each time it was mainly women, cisgender and heterosexual, who were thanking me for telling my story. 12/14
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But I wanted to make it clear that I was not conflating queerness and child abuse which is why, in the final scene, I wrote a line which I hoped would encapsulate what I was trying to say: that this was a play about patriarchy, not about gay men. 11/14
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The protagonist is a gay man and does not commit a sexual crime - so this is also not true. I admit the play explores very dark aspects of sexual violence which happen to be committed by gay characters... 10/14
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Secondly, it accuses me of portraying all gay men as āpredators, sex addicts, chem sex fiends, using each other as pieces of meat with no consideration for their physical or mental well-being, just objects for gratificationā and that I conflate homosexuality with child abuse 9/14
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It hammers home the point with a condescending joke that adds insult to injury: āHe is a willing participant but takes no responsibility for his own choices (how very Millennial).ā 8/14
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Also, the conditions for a crime to be classed as sexual assault do not need to involve restraint or physical violence. It also feels incredibly insensitive to say all of this especially as it is autobiographical 7/14
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Which is exactly one of the themes the play explores - hyper-sexuality as a trauma response. Why would someone suffering sexual trauma and a warped sense of self seek out sexual encounters that would hurt them? 6/14
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and is violently assaulted in a later scene. I think it is concerning that the reviewer failed to see the nuances surrounding the issue of consent and fails to consider why the protagonist feels compelled to put himself into these dangerous situations... 5/14
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This is not true. The play includes scenes in which he is manipulated into having sex before he is ready (after verbally saying he isnāt), he is stealthed (which was made illegal in 2019 by the first successful prosecution), he is slept with while he is unconscious... 4/14
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The review claims that every sexual encounter the protagonist experiences is āall consensualā and emphasises this point multiple times, even saying that the protagonist āat no point is forced, detained against his will, attacked, refused permission to leave, or coerced etc.ā 3/14
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For context, Good Boy is an autobiographical play about when I discovered a devastating secret about my first romantic partner and the following trauma response I suffered - It ultimately explores patriarchal power dynamics within gay sex and relationships. 2/14
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TW: Sexual violence, CSE. Iāve been meaning to do this for a while and itās been nearly 4 months so Iād better get on with it. I want to contest a review I received for my Edinburgh show Good Boy, which I feel misinterprets the play to the point that itās almost libellous. 1/14
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The main reason why @GoodBoythePlay hasnāt come to London again (yet!). The theatre landscape is really bleak right now.
#theatre people: when did we go from 60/40 split in artistās favour + venue help with publicity to āyou have to hire the space and we wonāt do anything to help sell ticketsā? Itās terrible for the theatre ecology, diversity & inclusion + harms venues ultimately too.
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@Channel4 I am begging you for a third series #EveryoneElseBurns
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I canāt get over Kate OāFlynnās performance in Everyone Else Burns. Understated heartbreaking comic genius.
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