Jimmy Somerville

토크쇼의 메인 게스트로 초대받은 인기 가수 올리버 심은 사랑과 수치심, 피로 얼룩진 몽환적인 여행으로 빠져든다. 3막으로 구성된 단편 뮤지컬.

Charting the evolution of public and political attitudes to homosexuality over the last four decades, from decriminalisation in 1967 to today's advances in gay sexual freedom, How Gay Sex Changed the World examines how the gay sexual revolution gathered pace in the face of gradually changing legislation, from the first Gay Pride march to groundbreaking dramas such as Queer as Folk.

An LWT South Bank Show, presented by Melvyn Bragg, exploring the phenomenon of countertenor singing. With its unique, soaring beauty, the high male voice is today enjoying a huge resurgence in popularity. Heirs to the celebrated castrati of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, today's countertenors produce their voices by wholly natural means. In this programme international stars Michael Chance, Andreas Scholl and James Bowman, as well as popstar Jimmy Somerville, shed light on the appeal of the male falsetto. Meanwhile, experts such as Michael White place today's countertenors in their historical context. What emerges is a compelling portrayal of an unmistakable vocal style, rooted in church and operatic tradition, yet completely up-to-date, resonating louder today than at any time in the last two hundred years.

Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera.

여성보다 더 아름다운 미모를 지닌 젊은 귀족 올란도는 만찬회장에서 여왕 엘리자베스 1세의 아름다움을 찬양하는 시를 낭송한다. 여왕은 그에게 저택을 하사하고 영원히 죽지도 늙지도 말라는 말을 남긴다. 여왕이 죽은 후 영국 주재 러시아 대사의 딸과 사랑에 빠지게 되지만, 갑자기 그녀가 고국으로 돌아가버리자 상심한 올란도는 1주일 동안 잠에 빠지고, 깨어난 후에는 시를 쓰며 마음을 달랜다. 얼마 후 터키 대사가 되어 영국을 떠난 올란도는 그곳에서 일어난 전쟁에 휘말리자 다시 긴 잠에 빠지게 되고 깨어나보니 자신의 성이 여자로 바뀌었음을 알게 되는데…

A 14-track video compilation featuring songs by the British singer/songwriter Marc Almond as a solo artist and with his partner Dave Ball as the synthpop duo Soft Cell.

Collection of music videos by Jimmy Somerville, both as solo artist as well as with the bands Bronski Beat and The Communards.

Collection of music videos by Jimmy Somerville, both as solo artist as well as with the bands Bronski Beat and The Communards.

A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.

Gay and lesbian teenagers interview straight people on the streets of London about their views on homosexuality.

Gay and lesbian teenagers interview straight people on the streets of London about their views on homosexuality.