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Detention
Gary Clarke Company proudly presents its highly anticipated new dance theatre show, Detention, following on from the multi-award-winning Coal and critically acclaimed  Wasteland.

Detention explores the impact of  Section 28: a piece of largely hidden legislation from Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Government in 1988, which ‘prohibited the promotion of homosexuality’, forcing people from the LGBT+ community into a place of secrecy, fear and shame at a time when the country was in industrial turmoil and the gay community was being ravaged by the onslaught of AIDS.

Gary Clarke‘s powerful and personal working-class storytelling draws on public and private stories and testimonies, including a rare insight into the LGBT+ Switchboard Logbooks, combined with vivid choreography performed by a company of exceptional dancers, an evocative narrator, a local cast of LGBT+ people, striking designs in film, sound, light and costume and music tracks by the iconic band Test Dept. Detention is a bold and moving exploration of the violence, loneliness, protests, debates, unlikely allies and the remarkable individuals and organisations of the time.

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16th September 2025,
7:30pm
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  • GBP 14
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17th September 2025,
7:30pm
  • Standard
  • GBP 14
Book Now

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