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McQueen

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James Phillips

Published by Methuen

Large Mixed Cast
"You look otherworldly. Like all my girls. This will make you a queen. Like years ago and people wore clothes like weapons, like weapons against poor people, because even if you were hungry how could you raise your fist against what looked like a god? But I can make things that are weapons against day to day stuff"

A girl has watched McQueen's Mayfair house for eleven consecutive days

Tonight, she climbs down from her watching tree and breaks into his house

To steal a dress

To become someone special

McQueen catches her

But instead of calling the police, they embark together on a journey through London

And into his heart

The play captures the fairy-story landscape of McQueen's mind...

... the landscape seen in his immortal shows where, with a dress, an urchin can become an Amazon

And where beauty might just help us survive the night

McQueen is a journey into the visionary imagination and dark dream world of Alexander McQueen, fashion's greatest contemporary artist

Premiere at St James Theatre, London, on May 2015

CAST
M5,F8

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"James Phillips's script . . is knotty and thoughtful, as it explores the responsibilities we have to the planet and to each other, the dangers of fundamentalism in many forms, and what we mean by society and justice" ~ Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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