Where To Now?
A staged reading of a play by Martin Patrick that explores the conflict of a young black university lecturer forced into confronting his identity in the context of the Brixton riots of 1981. Leaving his white lover of ten years and thereby his own submergence in white culture, he hopes to find fulfilment with a vibrant young black lover. ‘Brave and innovative’ (City Limits) it was among the first plays to bring black gay male experience to the stage.
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About
Dr Susan Croft (she/her) is a writer and curator, specialising in theatre, especially women’s work, but also LGBTQ+ and Global Majority work. In 2007 she co-founded Unfinished Histories, the project dedicated to gathering the oral history and archive of the alternative theatre movement and serves as its Director. Her practice focuses on sharing this history with inter- generationally through exhibitions, readings, discussion and publications. Recent exhibitions include Radical Rediscovery: Feminist Theatre in Britain 1969-92 (2024), Acting Out: Celebrating LGBTQ Theatre of the 1970s and 80s, Black Theatre in Britain: 1950s-2000s (both 2023). Her publications include Radical Rediscoveries: Performance texts from the Women’s Theatre Movement 1960 -1990 (Montez Press, 2025), Re-Staging Revolutions: Alternative Theatre in Lambeth and Camden 1968-88 (2013) and She Also Wrote Plays: an International Guide to Women Playwrights (Faber & Faber, 2001). She is an associate Artist of LPS running the three-year project FYFFI: Fifty Years of the Fight for Inclusion.
Dr Martin Patrick (he/him) graduated from a Visual Arts & Theatre Studies degree, and wrote his debut play Where To Now the following year. From 1988 – 1992 he wrote four other plays, Jubilee, Give It Up Mum and Romance and Treason, and adapted his television script Secrets for the stage. In 1994 he turned his Vignette short stories into a spoken word with dance and music theatre piece for Euro-Pride 1994. After 25 years teaching university students drama and film studies, Martin now writes novels. His British debut novel Love Both Ways was long-listed for the Polari Prize of 2017, his current novel The Torment of Desire is available worldwide, and The Librarian’s Revenge is due for publication in December 2025.