Bücher von John Roman Baker

Nick's Fugue is the sixth book in John Roman Baker's Nick & Greg series which charts the lives of Nick and Greg from their first teenage meeting through decades of personal and societal change.In this book, Nick leaves his home and finds himself in a destructive relationship that is both sexually and emotionally abusive. But when he is given the chance to help another person, he finds a new sense of purpose in life.Set in the early 1980s, the gay community itself is facing a brutal challenge. Nick's Fugue is a powerful and moving story about the destructive power of cruelty-a tough look at how lives can be destroyed by others, and how through endurance, hope can once more be believed in.John Roman Baker is a British novelist, poet and playwright who has lived and worked mainly in London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Brighton. It is these cities which provide the inspiration and focus for his work.

THE PROSTITUTION PLAYS are a unique chronicle of male prostitution in Amsterdam at the turn of the 21st Century. A lost generation of young men, disenfranchised by the fall of communism in central and eastern Europe travelled to the Netherlands to find a better life. In 4 short plays their experiences of 4 different kinds of prostitution are presented: in a brothel; a bar; an hotel room and on Amsterdam's Central Station. The plays are the creative product of research conducted by Aputheatre's John Roman Baker and Rod Evan between 1998 and 1999. Since 2000 the landscape has changed. The growth of the internet and council policies to clean up Amsterdam plus tougher security on Europe's borders have changed this way of life, perhaps forever. "Hustlers portrayed in all their contradictory Glory!" - Bruce LaBruce, Warsaw, 2000

THE CRYING CELIBATE TEARS TRILOGY comprises 3 plays written by John Roman Baker between 1988 and 1991: Crying Celibate Tears; The Ice Pick; Freedom to Party. They provide a unique insight into the impact of HIV and AIDS on gay men at the height of the crisis. The plays won awards and acclaim when presented at the Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals. With uncompromising directness the plays lay bare the physical and emotional strengths and inadequacies of the characters as they struggle against a seemingly invincible enemy. "Guaranteed to outrage the bigots!" - Derek Jarman, 1991 (The Ice Pick) "Takes the audience into uncharted emotional territory." - New Statesman & Society, 1991 (The Ice Pick) "A significant breakthrough in AIDS theatre!" - Plays & Players, 1989 (Crying Celibate Tears)

Brighton, 1961. Eighteen year old Greg is struggling to come to terms with his sexuality and to find his place in the world. He leaves home and embarks on a life driven more by chance than by choice. Through his encounters in Brighton he learns more about himself and starts to expand his horizons, but Nick remains his secret obsession. Soon he is on the run again, this time to London where he immerses himself in the vibrant scene developing in Chelsea. Clubs like the Gateways and Le Gigolo provide a kind of refuge, but homosexuality is still against the law and Greg finds he is always looking over his shoulder.

Nicholas should be at ease with the sexual liberation of mid-1970's England, but finds he is more on its margins than at its centre. He is not taken in by the propaganda. He meets Peter who is more integrated into the spirit of the decade and they begin an obsessional relationship which soon spirals out of control. Nicholas's story is told from four perspectives. Whose version is to be believed or trusted? Where is the truth in their desires and where the reality? What indeed is reality? Only one thing is certain: Nicholas is cracking up and sooner or later he will hit the ground. Between sanity and madness, life and death, reality and unreality, there is No Fixed Ground.