The Unforgivable Crime of Love
Theatre
12+
55 minutes
£12.00
Three Wise Monkeys - Top Floor
60 High St, Colchester CO1 1DN
Sat 24th Oct – 4pm
Sun 25th Oct – 6pm
Wed 28th Oct – 8:30pm
Thu 29th Oct – 7pm
Fri 30th Oct – 7pm
Sun 1th Nov – 3pm

This is the true story of Reed Peggram. In 1939 the brilliant young Black scholar from Boston, travels to Paris so that he could live a life beyond America’s racial boundaries. There, he falls deeply in love with Arne Hauptmann, a Danish scholar. As Nazi Germany advances across Europe, Reed refuses to abandon the man he loves. Their interracial queer relationship draws the attention of fascist authorities, eventually leading to their imprisonment in an Italian concentration camp.

Separated, starving, and hunted, the two men risk everything to escape and survive behind enemy lines. Their remarkable journey becomes a story of love and resistance, and survival against a racist and homophobic world!

*Please note there is no lift to access the top floor of Three Wise Monkeys. There are five flights of hand-railed stairs to reach the top floor with rest opportunities between each flight. Also, their licensing does not allow anyone under the age of 18 years of age to be in the venue past 9pm. Please consider this when booking.