Exclusive Preview from the play: Silvertown

Join us as the cast of ‘Silvertown’ take you on a journey back to the 60's with a short series of monologues followed by a Q&A with Jonny Wooster.

Jonny Wooster, known by his performance and nickname, Jonny Woo , actor, curator, drag performer, co-owner of queer pub, The Glory, is developing a play which will be set in Silvertown / North Woolwich in 1962 as part of this Join the Docks research and development project.

Jonny’s story is set in a pub based on the now, lost pub on Albert Road, ‘The Kent Arms’ which was well known in the 60s for its clientele which included local gay men, drag queens and tranvsetites, gay men from The Merchant Navy, dockworkers, sailors and anyone, men and women, after a good time. The play will explore contemporary themes of sexuality, identity, race, politics, community and ‘safe-spaces’ within the context of 1960s society.

While the storyline to the play is fictitious, the themes, events, characters and place will all be supported by Jonny's research on the area at the time through interviews with long tern and former residents from the area and the extended Royal Docks community and 'Queer' trailblazers who remember life before the partial decrimilisation of homosexuality in 1967.

The online event starts at 7.30pm and can be attended via the below zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83834489983?pwd=eXk4WVRpSFl3VVkrWU9GSEh4ajdZdz09

Written and conceived by Jonny Woo
Directed by Alexis Gregory
Produced by Dan de la Motte
Director of Photography - Maxx Ginnane
Lighting - James Rudd
Sound - Daniel Hawkes
Editor - Arnaud Pitois
Costumes courtesy of Hunky Dory
Hair & Make Up - Bow
Pat - Oliver Byng
Ted - Edd Muruako
Reg - Ian Holmes
Rita - Rachel Wilde
Stella - Lauria Lister
Sally - Rosie Akerman
Community Engagement Coordinator - Emma Crace
Filmed at the Silver Building in the Royal Docks
Commissioned by Join the Docks Festival

Jonny would like to thank the people of Silvertown and North Woolwich, past and present and to the gay pioneers who shared their stories as part of his research into this piece.