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Fearless depiction of the love that dared not speak its name in a time of gay persecution

Quaint Honour
FinboroughTheatre, London

THIS revival of Roger Gellert’s Quaint Honour, after 60 years of obscurity, is inspired because it’s a jewel of a play.

Set in a boys’ boarding school in the 1950s at a time when homosexuality was ruthlessly pursued by the law, it exposes the true extent of sexual activity between the boys and its consequence.

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