Six Days One June


Late on Tuesday night I stumbled across the subtly gay-themed half-hour monologue, Six Days One June, starring Rhys Ifans, on BBC1. It was wonderfully written and offered a very different image of gay life to that most popular today, namely the glamorous, sexy, well-toned, often-laid and well-off club-goer. Instead, we saw a man under the iron rule of a possessive mother; a man who never could name his feelings, who was sad and isolated, living on a farm, and very lonely. His brief romance with a New Zealander temporary farm worker, lasting only six days in June, was presented as warm and loving—entirely natural in an unnatural world of strict rules and discipline.

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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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