Starring Alex Britt, Charlie Condou (only scheduled to appear until 21 May), Derek Mitchell and Stanton Plummer-Cambridge, F**king Men is a modern retelling of Schnitzler’s infamous classic ‘La Ronde’ as a dramatic comedy that follows 10 men through a series of erotic encounters that change their lives in small but significant ways.

In this raw and updated new version for 2023, Tony-winning writer Joe DiPietro (‘Memphis’, ‘The Toxic Avenger,’ ‘What’s New Pussycat?’), takes a sharp and insightful look at the experiences of modern gay men as they navigate their conflicting desires for the comfort of monogamous love and the thrill of sexual freedom.

This dramatic comedy follows 10 men through a series of erotic encounters that change their lives in small but significant ways. In a raw and updated new version for 2023, Tony-winning writer Joe DiPietro (Memphis, The Toxic Avenger, What’s New Pussycat?), takes a sharp and insightful look at the experiences of modern gay men as they navigate their conflicting desires for the comfort of monogamous love and the thrill of sexual freedom.

Joe DiPietro said: “I couldn’t be more excited to debut this updated version of F**king Men . Much about our queer lives has evolved and changed since the play’s debut, so to bring contemporary attitudes to this roundelay of sex, love and intimacy has opened up new layers of meaning. I’m especially excited to see this play through a youthful and modern lens, which promises to deliver a sexy, incisive and hilarious night out.”

The play is structured in a very nice way and each character introduecs us smoothly to another one which takes us to the next scene through a magically invisible cycle. The writing in this play is so real that it can speak to the heart of many gays of 2023. Clever, fast, meaningful dialogues that represent our modern reality and actors doing an amazing job for a non-stop of 90 minutes.

The audience loved the four-actor cast who proved to have a great chemistry between them and delivered their 100%. The play showcases perfectly the need for connection and intimacy and it needs to be seen by every gay who lives in London in 2023.

F**king Men offers more than meets the eye – and there really is a lot to see! An intelligently written observation showcasing how the lives of some queer men intersect on their quest for connection. You’ve never had an evening of sex this deep.

The strictly limited season is booking to Sunday 18 June.

Creative team: Director Steve Kunis, Set and Costume Designer Cara Evens, Lighting Designer Alex Lewer, Sound Designer Charlie Smith, Movement & Intimacy Director Lee Crowley, Casting Director Anne Vosser, Voice and Dialect Coach Amanda Stephens-Lee.

Produced by Adam Roebuck (‘Afterglow’, UK premiere, Southwark Playhouse and Waterloo East Theatre).
Alex Britt
Theatre credits include: ‘Dumbledore Is So Gay’ (Pleasance & VAULT Festival); ‘My Dad’s Gap Year’ (Park Theatre); ‘Corpus Christi’ (Arcola Theatre); ‘Man-Cub’ (Etcetera Theatre & King’s Head Theatre).

Charlie Condou (Charlie is only scheduled to appear until 21 May)
Theatre credits includes: ‘After The Rain’ (Gate Theatre); Cracked (Hampstead
Theatre);  ‘Shopping & F***ing’ (nominated Best Actor at the MEN awards);  ‘The Changeling’
(Southwark Playhouse); ‘Dying for It’ (Almeida); ‘Next Fal’l (Southwark Playhouse); ‘The Crucible’
(No.1 tour); ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ (No. 1 tour); ‘Straight White Men’ (Southwark Playhouse).
On TV he played sonographer Marcus Dent in ‘Coronation Street’ from 2007 – 2014, and played Ben Sherwood in the medical drama ‘Holby City’.

Derek Mitchell 
Theatre credits include: ‘Suddenly Last Summer’, ‘The Bacchae’ and ‘Hedda Gabler’ (Oxford Playhouse) and ‘The Pillowman’ (Polanentheater, Amsterdam). On TV, Derek recently
appeared in the third series of ‘Ted Lasso’ on Apple TV+. One half of comedy duo Horseplay, Derek has toured with original narrative sketch shows Witch Hunt and Bareback to theatres in London, Oxford, Barcelona and Amsterdam, and to five Edinburgh Fringes

Stanton Plummer-Cambridge
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, his Theatre credits include: ‘Coming Clean’ (Trafalgar Studios); ‘Macbeth’ and ‘The Tempest’ (both Southwark Playhouse).
TV includes ‘Black Earth Rising’ (Netflix) and ‘The Durrells’ (ITV).

Joe DiPietro (Playwright)
Joe has won two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award and 2 Outer Critics Circle Awards.
Broadway credits include: ‘Diana’, ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’ (Tony nominations include Best
Musical & Best Book; Drama Desk Award – Best Book); ‘Memphi’s (Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score); ‘All Shook Up’ and ‘Living on Love’. Off-Broadway credits include: ‘Ernest Shackleton Loves Me’, ‘Clever Little Lies’, ‘The Toxic Avenger’, ‘The Thing About Men’, ‘Over the River and Through the Woods’ and the record-breaking ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’.

Steven Kunis (Director)
Steven was nominated Best Director of a Play at the Off West End Awards for the UK premiere of Young Jean Lee’s ‘Straight White Men’ (Southwark Playhouse), which was named by The Independent as one of the UK’s top ten theatre events of 2021. Recently, he directed the UK premiere of Tanya Barfield’s ‘Bright Half Life’ (King’s Head Theatre) and the world premiere of Shaun McKenna’s ‘Rocky Road’ (Jermyn Street Theatre), which was listed by the Guardian among the top online theatre experiences of lockdown. He also directed the UK debut of the Refugee Orchestra Project at the London Symphony Orchestra’s St Luke’s venue, and in 2019 he was again nominated for Best Director at the Off West End Awards for the critically acclaimed three-month run of S. Asher Gelman’s ‘Afterglow’ (Waterloo East).

*photos by Darren Bell