ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE SCREENING

I'M A BERYL REID FANATIC! AND SHE STARS IN THIS TWISTED TALE WHICH JOHN CAMERON MItCHELL IS PRESENTING ON 10/1. PLEASE SCREEN THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, HER REAL SMASH! FROM JOHN'S WEBSITE:



Entertaining Mr. Sloane is the unsung black comedy gem of Swinging Sixties-era British film. Closely adapted from Joe Orton's 1964 hit play, it concerns a certain young libidinous lodger fought over by a wacky middle-aged brother and sister. It's Pinter crossed with Dame Edna. It combined the broad, skeptical music hall humor I learned from my youth in a Scottish Catholic boarding school with the giddy homo outrage I felt coming out in the AIDS-benighted 80's. Orton, the openly queer, rudely promiscuous bomb-thrower of the British stage, was all the rage in the mid 60's to the point of being commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles (sadly unrealized). Some folks aspire to play Hamlet and Lear. The old men in Orton are the only roles I still feel the need to essay. And maybe Kath in Sloane (see pic), though it's impossible to top Beryl Reid's tour de force in this film.

When: 7:30PM, Thursday, Oct. 1
Where: 92Y Tribeca -- 200 Hudson St at Canal St., NYC (more info at link below)

Seats are extremely limited, so for tickets for John and SLOANE best to buy in advance at no extra fee at: QUEERARTFILM