Damian Darkness Sex & Disability + Vince Laws: A Very Queer Nazi Faust.

Damian Darkness’s Sex & Disability (film) + Vince Laws: A Very Queer Nazi Faust (podcast), with a live introduction by the playwrights.

To commemorate World AIDS Day we present Damian Darkness’s Sex & Disability (film) + Vince Laws: A Very Queer Nazi Faust (podcast), with a live introduction by the playwrights in conversation with Festival Director Dr Ju Gosling.

Sex and Disability is a play with music written by Damian Darkness, with music from Mishkin Fitzgerald. The play follows the story of a young man called Nick, disabled after a stroke at a young age, and struggling to make his way through the world of sex. Nick manages to enlist the help of his new carer Jasmine, a partnership which leads to exciting consequences. Sex and Disability aims to challenge perceptions and open a conversation about this subject, which is not tackled enough in mainstream society.

Poet John Faust is suicidal. His benefits have been stopped without warning, the bailiffs are due to evict him, his dog is in the vets dying, his car needs a new clutch, and he can’t finish his poetic masterpiece while the voices inside his head torment him. In despair, he throws himself off Beeston Bump, Norfolk’s highest peak, clutching ‘The Tragic True Life & Deserved Death of a Benefit Scrounger by Himself’, but Lucifer won’t let John drown because she loves his work and wants a bigger part. A Very Queer Nazi Faust celebrates over 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK and highlights issues around cuts to disability benefits. The performance contains adult themes and language, suicidal thoughts, Lucifer, The Naked Abseilers and poetry, but no Nazis.