Kit has been touring with this international contemporary classical hit that has played Manchester International Festival, Aix en Provence Festival, Bregenz Festival, London Southbank, Amsterdam Festival and RuhrTrenienale before an extensive run in New York late 2025.
Fantasy meets liberation in this queer retelling of world history from Philip Venables and Ted Huffman.
Step into a world where fables and myths celebrate queer community, friendship and pleasure: a manifesto for survival for the marginalised everywhere.
Based on the 1977 cult book by Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a music theatre piece that reimagines the history of the world through a queer lens.
In this musical adaptation by composer Philip Venables and director Ted Huffman, the original text is taken on a kaleidoscopic journey by a cast of actors, singers and musicians.
Together they conjure up a world on the brink of revolution – imagine battle re-enactments crossed with cheerleading, all night raves mixed with lute songs and court dances.
The result is a joyful celebration of queer experience that’s both vulnerable and provocative. A space where deeply personal stories are shared and soothed through community.
Radical and playful, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions brings together theatre, dance and song for the ultimate anarchic bedtime story.
Photography: Damien Frost
The Times ****
“A delight and surprise”
“An exhilarating cabaret spectacle”
The Guardian ****
“It celebrates openness and fluidity in its generosity and pliability: operatic, punkish, dance-driven, teasingly spoken, an affair not of stars but of a company pulling together, presided over by Kit Green, slinking in red satin.”
The Stage ****
“Exhilarating… there is such beauty in watching this group of people imagine a better world… genuinely collective storytelling and world-building, forming seamlessly matching content… a genuinely fresh and distinctive new work that gladdens the heart”Manchester Evening News (5 stars) · “Prepare for passion, poignancy and pithiness… this show is bursting with joy” · “This masterpiece does not rewrite history, it radically retells it”
The Mancunion · “Riotous, fabulous and outrageous display of queer struggle, perseverance and celebration” · “A great display of diversity and unity”
Northern Soul (Four Stars) · “Told with the charm of a bedtime story, maintaining a lightness and sense of fun that counterpoints some of the heavy subject matter”
Olyrix · “Nourished and fervent”
Classical France · “Installing joy everywhere… they are its marvellous ambassadors, reinventors and re-creators”
Toute la culture · “A baroque, queer and militant fantasy… the strength is undeniably in these representatives of a multitude of genres who manage to take you by the hand”
Parterre · “Comic, catchy, sensual, and majestic”
New York Times · “Often surprising, executed with mastery and worth repeated viewing as they travel in the coming months and years.”
Opera Online · “A playful, wacky and profound patchwork.., pleasure is on the side of good.”
· Mundo Classico: “A hymn to freedom and enjoyment.” · Classical France “Installing joy everywhere… they are marvellous ambassadors, reinventors and re-creators” · Toute la culture: “A baroque, queer and militant fantasy… the strength is undeniably in these representatives of a multitude of genres who manage to take you by the hand” · Parterre: “Comic, catchy, sensual, and majestic” · New York Times: “Premieres at Aix can be a mixed bag, but this year “Picture a Day Like This,” by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, and “The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions,” by Philip Venables and Ted Huffman, were rightfully well-received contributions to the field: often surprising, executed with mastery and worth repeated viewing as they travel in the coming months and years.” · The New York Times (2) “an astonishing feat of controlled chaos”. · Opera Online: “A playful, wacky and profound patchwork.., pleasure is on the side of good.” · Platea Magazine “Hopefully it will have more travel and be seen in other countries where those who have risen to power to impose their ideas on the word, the idea, the reality that is most of all: freedom, censor it.”