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Dead dreams of monochrome men
At the heart of the production is the serial killer Dennis Nilson, who in late 1970s London murdered a string of young male victims.
« If it sounds shocking, it is » wrote the British Guardian newspaper of « Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men ». In the bluish-grey light of a closed room, a semi-naked man is manoeuvred into a bathtub, a second dangles head first from the ceiling, a third lies strangely doubled-up on the floor. A fourth man has the others on his conscience. This not only sounds shocking : what Lloyd Newson’s work seeks to portray in term of violent excess in the world of homosexuality really is shocking.
At the heart of the production is the serial killer Dennis Nilson, who in late 1970s London murdered a string of young male victims.
Dead dreams of monochrome men was creatd for the stage in 1988 and translated into a film version the following year.
This duet is performed by Russell Maliphant and Lloyd Newson.
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