Singing about the love that dare not speak its name

Sydney is set to host the world premiere of a new musical inspired by E.M. Forster’s Maurice and Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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Rupert Graves and James Wilby in a scene from the Merchant-Ivory adaptation of Maurice (1987)

Written in 1913-14 but not published until 1971, after the author’s death, E.M. Forster’s Maurice is a landmark English novel about same-sex love between two men of very different classes; in was adapted for the screen in 1987 by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a stage version following in 1998, adapted by Roger Parsley and Andy Graham.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts