MK Lit Fest Autumn Festival: New Voices with Paul David Gould
Start Date: 14/10/2023
End Date: 14/10/2023
Start Time: 3:30 pm
End Time: 4:30 pm
Cost of Entry: £8
Milton Keynes Central Library 555 Silbury Boulevard, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 3HL, GB
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Showcasing startling writing talents as they emerge is part of MK Lit Fest's mission. To a catalogue of rising names that includes Preti Taneja, Sam Byers, Mary Jean Chan, Andrew McMillan and Elly Williams, we are delighted to add another - Paul David Gould.
'The venue was the canteen block of the Red Hammer Cement Works. It was the usual set-up: way out of town, secretive directions to get there, and disco lights blazing...’
Moscow, 1993. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union have brought unimaginable change to Russia. With this change come new freedoms: freedom to travel abroad and to befriend Westerners, freedom to make money, and even the freedom for an underground gay scene to take root. Encouraged by the new climate of openness, twenty-one-year-old Kostya ventures out of the closet and resolves to pursue his dreams: to work in the theatre and to find love as his idol Tchaikovsky never could. Those dreams, however, lead to tragedy...