The British Guide to Showing Off
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This is partly a biography of the gay, ever-cheerful, Oxford-educated sculptor Andrew Logan and the extravagantly staged Alternative Miss World shows he's been putting on at various London venues since 1972.
Using a deal of gaudy archive footage, it's built around the twelfth show in the series, mounted at the Roundhouse with Ruby Wax as co-presenter in 2009. The performers range from the countercultural director Derek Jarman, one of Logan's earliest supporters, to pillar of the establishment Sir Norman Rosenthal of the Royal Academy, bravely letting his hair down. The events are a very English combination of carnival, kids' dressing-up parties, drag balls and PoW camp shows.
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