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Monday, May 02, 2022
‘I want to create a lesbian mecca’: Iman Qureshi on her play about a glorious women’s choir
Theatre | The Guardian: A group of women are singing along to My Favourite Things, the old favourite from The Sound of Music, except the original words have been switched with lesbian-specific lyrics. “Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings” becomes instead “the soft brush of pubic hair on my chin”. This is the raucous rehearsal for The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, Iman Qureshi’s new play about a queer choir and the struggle for harmony within it.
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