Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Hull New Theatre
It’s not surprising everybody is talking about Jamie. I’ll be talking about him for a long time, to anyone who’ll listen.
Well, not Jamie exactly, but the show Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, which came to the Hull New Theatre on Monday night.
Based on a true story, it recounts the trials and tribulations of 16-year-old Sheffield schoolboy, Jamie New (Layton Williams), who has always liked to dress up in women’s clothes and who decides to wear a dress to his school’s prom.
Disowned by his dad, who once caught him in his mum’s dress at the age of eight and ridiculing and bullying by some of his school pals, doesn’t deter the young teen from fulfilling his dream of becoming a drag queen when he leaves school.
Luckily for Jamie, his mum, Margaret (Amy Ellen Richardson), embraces...