Step inside a story-box about the masks we wear to be accepted, and what it costs to take them off.

Good Enough is an intimate, one-person immersive experience about the inner lives of queer men, and open to anyone who has ever felt they had to be someone else.

One person at a time, you’ll touch, listen and look your way through a story told in objects, sound, dance film and an augmented reality character who appears in different forms. Along the way you’ll find tabloid cuttings from the 1970s and 80s showing how gay men were once written about. What would you hide to be accepted? And who gets to see the real you?

Shaped by Alan Downs’ The Velvet Rage and John Darvell’s own lived experience, with support from members of the older queer community, Good Enough is still in development. This is an early chance to try it and help shape where it goes next. Afterwards, we’ll ask you to complete a short feedback form.

John Darvell is a Scotland-based dance and digital artist and founder of NOCTURN. For 20 years he has made participatory work for outdoor, online and community spaces, including the touring digital dance trail The Riddle.

Funding and credits

Good Enough is supported by Immersive Arts and Creative Scotland’s National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations.

Collaborating partners: Artlink Central, Birnam Arts, CityMoves Dance Agency SCIO, Cove Park, Dancin Oxford, Eden Court, OurStory Scotland, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Innovation Studio, Sanctuary Queer Arts, Stirling Pride and The Work Room.

Welfare and safeguarding partner: Switchboard LGBT+.

With special thanks to CoStar (Collaborative R&D programme).

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