Coming out with Shakespeare

This is not your typical Shakespearean love story.

South London Theatre Centre is presenting Shakespeare's classic comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona with a twist (and some cross-dressing).

Set "sometime in the last 300years," the play is retold as a gay coming out story.

Valentine is leaving his friend, Proteus, in Verona to pursue the art of being a gentleman in Milan. Back home, Proteus is wooing Julia - but is she interested? For that matter, is he?

In Milan, Valentine begins his courtship of the gentle Silvia - who is betrothed to the foppish, foolish Sir Thurio. When Proteus arrives in Milan to seek out his friend, the scene is set for an outrageous comedy of manners.

Packed with cross-dressing, misunderstandings and a posse of bandits (of a certain nature), this promises to be a provocative, hilarious take on a little-performed classic.

Two Gentlemen of Verona
February 13-16
South London Theatre Centre
2a Norwood High Street
London, SE27 9NS.

Box office: 020 8670 347