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Drill Hall, London >>>

1992

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Old Red Lion Theatre, London >>>

2000

Living Proof Theatre Company

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One of the characters in 'Belly' expresses frustration at having to label her sexuality: she's been with boys and girls, iscurrently with the former but clearly prefers the latter and the term bisexual just won't do. 'Can't I just be? she asks of her fiercely homosexual friend, to which he facetiously retorts, 'You can't be be-sexual'. Debbie Oates' new play is preoccupied with decategorisation, of finding the infinitely diverse person behind the two-dimensional type, and in so doing, exposing the error of 'putting people in pasta jars', as one of them describes it. Her four protagonists are anti-stereotypes: there's the ex-army gay man with belligerent tendencies; the straight, homophobic police officer who dabbles in off-duty cross-dressing; his girlfriend, amostly gay but currently heterosexual fellow cop; and her ex, the lesbian whose pridealmost gets the better of her passion.
Madeleine North, Time Out