City of Lost Souls

This riotous and massively ahead-of-its-time, intersectional queer-New Wave musical went on to greatly influence trans politics.

Centred around a squalid Berlin burger joint and the ragtag group of multiracial Americans, of a range of gender identities and sexual persuasions, who work there, prodigious activist-filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim’s underground classic is equal parts Paul Morrissey-Andy Warhol, John Waters and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with lashings of satirical Cold War intrigue, searing political commentary and regular demolitions of the fourth wall. Also to be seen and heard in Jubilee, punk rock icon Jayne County – in a gloriously unrestrained performance for the ages – and legendary drag performer Angie Stardust lead the cast, with many of them playing themselves, after a fashion...