Ooh, it’s so good, it’s so good
It’s so good, it’s so good, it’s so good
Ooh, I feel love, I feel love I feel love,
I feel love, I feel love.
Running throughout LGBTQ+ history month this February, FutureQueer is a subversive look at an imagined queer future, all set around the iconic Donna Summer queer anthem I Feel Love. Alexis Gregory’s work appeals to cross-generational audiences, opening up new conversations for audiences. Gregory, a critically acclaimed writer and performer, presents a show that can only be described as funny, hard-hitting, and provocative. As ever with Gregory’s work, it will also be camp as f*ck.
FutureQueer, set in 2071, follows up on the success of Riot Act, which focused on LGBTQ+ pasts and is now looking to an imagined LGBT future. The moving, irreverent,and outrageously funny FutureQueer is part speculative queer excavation, part pop culture commentary, and part meditation on disco music as a metaphor for queer survival.
The show touches on subjects as wide-ranging as unborn queer babies, drag avatars, and LGBTQ+ future migration. FutureQueer will be one of the first shows to be performed in the newly built venue for the King’s Head Theatre in the cabaret space, is a venue that is dedicated to supporting and programming trail-blazing new work. The run also marks Gregory’s return to the King’s Head after originating Riot Act there in 2018, and in the sold-out work-in-progress performance of this show. Riot Act went on to be performed in the West End, throughout London and the UK on four national tours, is currently streaming via Broadway on Demand, and translated for international productions.
FutureQueer will be one of the first shows to be performed in the newly built venue for the King’s Head Theatre in the cabaret space, a venue that is dedicated to supporting and programming trail-blazing new work. The run also marks Gregory’s return to the King’s Head after performing Riot Act and in the sold-out work-in-progress run of this show.
Alexis Gregory, writer and performer, comments, I’m really pleased to be bringing FutureQueer to the new Kings Head Theatre at this pivotal and exciting point in the theatre’s history. Previous outings of the show have seen audiences totally embrace the themes and free-flowing form as we jointly explore a speculative queer future via the lens of our shared queer past and present. This is a show full of surprises and unexpected turns for the audience and I really look forward to welcoming audiences to the new cabaret space at the theatre.
Gregory creates multi-faceted work which brings to light unexpected queer narratives; from stories of homeless and at-risk LGBTQ+ youth to gay serial killers, and hidden stories of queer activism across the decades.
Alexis Gregory will also appear at various other events over LGBTQ+ History Month to promote FutureQueer. This will include performing a section from the show at a special Polari (LGBTQ+ literary salon) pop-up on the main stage at Heaven night club on Thursday 25th January, hosting a screening of his digital theatre piece Safe at Soho’s House of St Barnabas on Tuesday 6th February, and performing Riot Act in the House’s chapel on Thursday 22nd February.
