So I learnt all of that in sort of a weird backwards way.” I think it’s a good lesson in not trying to be funny, just play the truth and really try to mean what you say and then hopefully other people will laugh, but you have to be committed. I was so reluctant because I didn’t trust that it was real acting, I thought ‘I want to make people sob, that’ll mean I’m good!’ I try to remind people of that when I teach, you can sling over the other way and try too hard to be funny and then you’re not. It took me a while to come around to doing comedy. I wanted to be a serious actor, I always wanted to do drama, but I would get laughs and I was really mad about it because I didn’t want to make people laugh then. But I was also really obnoxious in school and made my friends laugh! I was always well-behaved at home and then I would get to school and just do anything I could do to make my friends laugh. Then I realised that I could be someone else and I just could express so much of myself through playing someone else and at least trick myself into thinking ‘oh, I’m such a different person when I’m up here.’ That gave me so much confidence. I didn’t start doing theatre until High School. I had a wonderful upbringing in North Carolina in the 1980s and 90s. “I was actually always the quiet kid that was upstairs in my room reading, living in a fantasy world.
How did the performer in you first manifest itself, were you performing one man, or one boy, shows for your family as a kid? Before we get on to that, I just wanted to take you back a little. James Kleinmann, The Queer Review: Congratulations on Happy Birthday Doug. With Drew Droege currently back Off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse with his new one man show, Happy Birthday Doug, The Queer Review’s editor James Kleinmann caught up him to talk what makes good comedy, writing himself flawed gay men to play, why The Golden Girls is still funny and what he loves about Greg Berlanti’s The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy. That show was filmed by Broadway HD winning Droege an Oustanding Performance award from Outfest Los Angeles in 2018. He recently wrote an episode of the RuPaul starring Netflix show AJ and the Queen, had a scene-stealing recurring role as Mr Dennis on the Paramount show Heathers and had an extended Off-Broadway run of his one man show Bright Colors and Bold Patterns. Acid-free paper, 100% recycled, FSC certified and carbon neutral.But there’s far more to Mr Droege than his hit YouTube videos. One or the other of us has to go.Ī3 (297 x 420 mm approx.), digital colour print, unframed. Dying in a run-down hotel, he remarked my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.
Oscar’s double life was exposed and he was jailed for two years. He supported his extravagant lifestyle by writing four successful plays and editing Woman’s World magazine.īut a tempestuous love affair with Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas led to a notorious court case. Seduced by their lodger, Robbie Ross, Oscar embarked on a secret homosexual life. He moved to London, married Constance Lloyd and dazzled high society with his sparkling wit. A perfect gift for Wildean wits, lovers of books and Irish culture on birthdays and other special occasions.ĭublin – Enniskillen – London – Reading – ParisĪs a child, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde absorbed the best of Dublin conversation at his mother’s literary salons. This cool Irish Writers print by At it Again! features a stylised image of Oscar Wilde, the author of the Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest, and places of importance in his life.
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