To commemorate this year’s 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales, St Paul’s School is delighted to be hosting 'Thinking Queer', a fortnight of related events across the arts, celebrating gay culture in the UK.
Rupert Everett: In Conversation
4 October, 7.30pm
The Samuel Pepys Theatre
From his incendiary 1981 London debut in Julian Mitchell’s Another Country, via a career as a Hollywood A-lister playing alongside the likes of Julia Roberts and Madonna, to his triumphant, Olivier-nominated performance as Oscar Wilde in 2013’s The Judas Kiss, Rupert Everett has remained one of this country’s most iconic actors. His two volumes of autobiography became bestsellers; the second, Vanished Years, won the Sheridan Morley prize for memoir in 2012.
In advance of the release in cinemas of The Happy Prince, a major new biopic of queer icon Oscar Wilde in which he writes, directs and stars, Everett will appear in conversation with St Paul's School's Director of Drama Christian Anthony to discuss his theatrical and often outrageous life with all the candour, exuberance and intellectual insight for which he is treasured.
All profits from this event will be donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust.