Thu, 30 Jan
|The Kings Head Theatre
FIREBIRD LGBTQ EVENT
The gay military epic that enraged Putin's Russia - The Times
Time & Location
30 Jan 2025, 19:00 – 22:00
The Kings Head Theatre, 115 Upper St, London N1 1QN, UK
About the event
West End Outings LGBTQ Division is thrilled to be returning to The Kings Head Theatre in Islington for an epic drama...
Drawing on a true-life Cold War story, FIREBIRD follows a handsome, soulful young soldier who embarks on a clandestine affair with a charismatic fighter pilot on an Air Force Base in Soviet-occupied Estonia at the height of 1970s Communist rule. The story comes to the stage for the first time after an acclaimed film by Peeter Rebane and Tom Prior (2021) which premiered at BFI Flare: London’s LGBTQI+ Film Festival.
The cast are Robert Eades (Johnny Weissmuller in the film Young Woman & the Sea, Mo Dix in Bad Education), Nigel Hastings (The Forsyte Saga Parts 1 & 2, Park Theatre, Jeff in the hit two-hander And Then Come the Night Jars, Theatre503, tours, and film adaptation), Sorcha Kennedy (Rainer - Offie-nominated Lead Performance in a Play, Arcola Theatre, and…