Writer and performer, Sue Frumin (Raising the Wreck) will be reading Fine and Dandy as a monologue performance at this special reading of her acclaimed play, which follows the adventures of Ernest/Ernestine Faigele Fine, a Jewish male impersonator.
Free tickets are available from https://www.outsavvy.com/event/33310/fine-and-dandy-reading-by-sue-frumin
The reading is part of Lewisham's LGBTQ+ History Month celebrations and a soft launch for Bijou Stories' Any Old Iron project which invites members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies to explore and reimagine the British Music Hall.
Sue Frumin has many connections with Borough of Lewisham as she lived in Deptford for many years and worked at The Albany. As part of Gay Sweatshop, she wrote Raising the Wreck, a tale of women pirates living on a sunken pirate ghost ship. The influential play is now being developed for a revival in late 2026.
''I became the writer I am today because of a chance encounter with Raising the Wreck. I was 16 years old and had somehow got a ticket. I was alone. That night the whole world opened in front of me. I saw my future on that stage, I saw my ancestors, and understood my place in the lineage. It’s a pioneering piece of unapologetically women’s theatre, loud, vibrant, hilarious and somehow holy. It made the world seem possible
Joelle Taylor, Poet, Writer, performer and winner of the TS Eliot Prize
