Being different is a complicated business. It can be exciting, distressing, temporary, permanent, liberating, dangerous, painful, a cause for celebration. It’s about bodies and language, memories and labels, perceptions and assumptions, acceptance and resistance. 

Join DAR Rogers at the Torch Theatre this September - a queer, neurodivergent, curious, middle-aged Talking Heads fanatic, to consider some tricky questions around the subjects of difference, identity, positioning, labelling and belonging. An early career writer and performer, DAR has previously worked as a social worker and researcher and became involved in the arts at the age of 50. DAR’s motto is ‘There’s Still Time!’.

Brought to you by Das Clarks (who has a DIY approach to exploring ideas and empowering those who have no previous experience of performance) and Jo Fong (Creative Associate artist with the Wales Millennium Centre) with Creative Practitioner Becky Davies, A Brief History of Difference is an interactive theatre piece. Rooted in conversation, knowledge sharing, questioning, personal narrative and performance, it’s for anyone who considers themselves a person of difference and anyone who wonders what it would be like to be or live differently. 

A Brief History of Difference will feature on the Torch Theatre stage on Wednesday 17 September at 7pm. Price: £18. Visit the website for further details www.torchtheatre.co.uk or phone the Box Office on (01646) 695267.

Image credit: Kirsten McTernan