Expert Keith Cavers will be giving an illustrated talk on the history of drag through the centuries. Keith is an art and theatre historian who trained in stage management at RADA in the 1970s, and is chair of the EF Benson Society.

To whet your appetite, there may be some interesting revelations...

Who remembers a 1971 College production of The Importance of Being Earnest with Lady Bracknell played by Paul Mayhew-Archer who later became the co-writer of The Vicar of Dibley and producer of numerous radio comedy classics. (See main photo.)

And you may get to see the captain of the school football team, Edward Griffin, looking slightly uncomfortable in a dress in an 1882 College production of a play called The Heir at Law, as well as the late satirist and actor John Wells (of Private Eye fame) also in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest and playing Miss Prism in a 1954 College production.

Keith writes: Today, 'drag’ is a very different concept than it was in the past. Drag started as a theatrical phenomenon and this talk charts some of its beginnings and development from the classical theatre through Shakespeare to more modern times. In the theatre, there is usually some excuse for cross-dressing within the plot of a play. In Twelfth Night, an actor had to play the part of a girl who then had to disguise herself as a boy; plenty of scope there for comic as well as dramatic business, and, indeed, cross-dressing tended to become associated with comic parts and with comedians thereafter. The older tradition was retained in single-sex institutions such as in the army, prisons, schools, and universities, though Oxford and Cambridge took differing paths.

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