Dr Jimmy: First Steps into the Gay-Niverse
Doctor Jimmy Lyons is on a quest among the comfortable leather sofas of the Cinema Room of Brass Monkey, showing off his shapely shoulders and arms and flaunting his impressive PhD (Pretty Huge Desire to understand the universe is gay) and using the scientific method to take a step by step approach, evidence based, to demonstrate his premise in debut Fringe show.
A rare particle in the wild, free radical of rainbow spirit, an openly gay physicist who after school in Kirkcaldy studied in the Netherlands, beneath his primary goal of the First Steps into the Gay-Niverse are three further aims: to prove the existence of parallel worlds, to talk to his childhood best friend, Craig the Rock, and to get over his ex, having chosen to focus on career instead of happiness.
The show described as a work in progress, introductory particle physics and TMI confessional, Doctor Jimmy has no trouble with his claimed slot which he overfills to almost an hour, talking about the history of physics and queer erasure, Newton’s laws of motion and splitting of white light through a prism to Turing being cast aside despite his achievements, finally given recognition as the face of the English £50 note but still unlikely to be accepted in many establishments; plus ça change…
Physics the fundamental science upon which others are built, chemistry and biology dependent on its properties, Doctor Jimmy’s First Steps into the Gay-Niverse explores the strange parallels between elementary particles and the men he has encountered in his life, strange, charming, often unstable, their behaviour changing depending on whether they are observed, wave- particle duality a spectrum of light and being in the universe of spacetime which even Einstein (or was it Douglas Adams?) declared was bent.
