Pip Utton Bacon

5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

Francis Bacon sits Coiffuring his hair into a Quiff, some powder to the cheeks, he explains he keeps himself young looking.

Under his smart trousers he is wearing fishnet stockings, he is an “old poof” after all.

Born in 1909 his father often beat him; well he was caught shagging the stable boy while wearing his mother’s knickers.

Described as the “Greatest painter since Turner” he painted feelings, great open wide mouths, black, in pain screaming.

Often found propping up the Colony Bar ran by Murial Belcher, who calls everyone Cunty as a term of endearment.

On stage Bacon manages to get through a bottle of Champagne and opens another, Pip Utton portrays the slightly drunken Bacon perfectly, starting to slightly slur and finding  hatred in being alone at 80.

He has spent most of his life having random brutal sex, the two men he cared for died one of alcohol the other of drugs.

Again, he is drawn to the contorted screaming mouths, they are only designed to scream, suck or blow, never kindness never passion. He feels most alive when attacked left broken bruised and tasting the dirt.

Pip Utton becomes Francis Bacon in this excellent monologue, he takes us though his life, his own underage sex, cruising parks, kink and lost loves with a wistful remembrance. What do we even exist for, if not art, but what does his art mean.

For that you will need to buy a ticket.

This monologue is masterful it captures Bacon away from the TV and radio interviews it’s the mind of the man.

Pip Utton is a master at delivering a monologue, Chaplin, Hitler, Einstein, Margaret Thatcher, Churchill and many more

He is also performing as The Hunchback of Notre Dames this year another not to be missed.