Contents:
- GAY FOR PAY WITH BLAKE & CLAY
- REVIEW: GAY FOR PAY WH BLAKE & CLAY AT GAY FOR PAY PRODUCTNS/CROW’S THEATRE
- GAY FOR PAY WH BLAKE AND CLAY – ON STAGE NOV 16 TO 27, 2022 (TORONTO)
- GAY FOR PAY WH BLAKE & CLAY
GAY FOR PAY WITH BLAKE & CLAY
GAY FOR PAY WITH BLAKE & CLAY. Every actor knows there is nothg more prtig than bravely playg gay.
Jo Blake and Clay, two seasoned gay actors, as they teach you to play gay and make LGBTQ about YOU. GAY FOR PAY is “razor sharp satire” (Glenn Sumi) that livers “a punchy gag-a-send whirlwd” (Istvan Dugal).
PLEASE NOTE: For the safety of performers and patrons sharg the Stud space, Gay for Pay Productns requir all patrons to wear masks durg the performance. Chock-full of pop culture referenc and wty one-lers, Gay for Pay, produced by Gay for Pay Productns associatn wh Crow’s Theatre, is a one-hour play that touch on ias of gay reprentatn film a unique and clever way.
REVIEW: GAY FOR PAY WH BLAKE & CLAY AT GAY FOR PAY PRODUCTNS/CROW’S THEATRE
Although not a dance show the cy, Gay for Pay was a h at the Toronto Frge Ftival this year, wng Patron’s pick (the bt-sellg show at their venue for the season), which I have been dyg to see. Thk gay Tony Robbs, pumpg up the assumed straight dience of actors, a one-hour semar-like event ma to help you w an Osr by “playg gay”. The two workshop lears, Blake and Clay, are two gay actors stgglg to fd work, so stead they swch to nng semars on how to thentilly ‘play gay’ for straight actors, bee well, they are dog anyway….
GAY FOR PAY WH BLAKE AND CLAY – ON STAGE NOV 16 TO 27, 2022 (TORONTO)
Topics are timely as the two talk about everythg om current gay polil figur like Pete Buttigieg to Toronto-specific issu like the Police’s rponse to serial killer Bce McArthur all humouro ways. The show isn’t all lghs, as do take a sudn turn to a ser note wh monologu on what means to “pass” for straight as a gay actor or their personal stggl around limed reprentatns of gay characters film.
Gay for Pay, produced by Gay for Pay Productn partnership wh Crow's Theatre, is playg until November 27, 2022, at the Streetr Crowsnt’s Stud Theatre (345 Carlaw Avenue, Toronto, Ontar M4M 2T1). For more @crowstheatre@gayforpayproductns. Photo of Daniel Krolik and Jonathon Wilson Gay for Pay.
But make no mistake: Gay for Pay wh Blake & Clay don’t lose s steam the send time around.
GAY FOR PAY WH BLAKE & CLAY
Frh off their triumphant n at the 2022 Toronto Frge Ftival, Gay for Pay wh Blake & Clay has brought a limed revival to Streetr Crowsnt’s Stud Theatre. Daniel Krolik and Jonathan Wilson rume their rol as Blake and Clay, two out-of-work gay actors who are fely terted your relatnship wh any lol stg directors.
But more importantly, they’ve teamed up to create a masterclass to teach straight male actors how to ace the ultimate, Osr-wng part: a gay man. After all, the number of straight male actors who, to this day, we appld merely for their bravery “playg gay” is enough to make the md reel. From the moment the show starts and Blake and Clay earntly expla why ’s so important to teach the new, woke generatn of straight men to play gay (after all, they moisturize their fac now, they’re halfway there), ’s clear that the jok and gog to be g fast and hard.
While Blake and Clay’s six-pot procs to beg the bt not-gay actor playg gay possible hasn’t changed the past four months — after all, as they’ll assure you, ’s a tried and te method om two verifiable gays — the small but mighty creative team of Krolik, Campbell, stage manager Jam Hyett, and producer Rachel Kennedy has expertly relibrated their productn to f the new venue. I won’t spoil the surprise for the unfortunate souls who missed out on Gay for Pay’s Frge n, but the quiet closens of the brilliant moment is amplified to an almost afeng silence this time around. The brilliance of this eratn of the play is that really allows the dience to spend their disbelief and image they are a workshop; the experience borrs on immersive razor-sharp wrg and a flair for the dramatic, Gay for Pay wh Blake & Clay is a bucket of lghs wh a hefty dose of heart.