Leather & Chains - Live!
In Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary, poet Kate Camp interrogates her teenage accounts of sex, drugs, and risk-taking. See it unfold live on stage, and play a round of 1986 bingo.
“IF YOU EVER GET TO SEE KATE CAMP READ FROM HER 14YO DIARY DO IT F***ING DO IT.” – Melody Thomas
"The 180-odd people who pushed and squeezed their way into Bad Diaries Salon at LitCrawl Wellington every year to hear Kate Camp read snippets from her 1986 diary have been waiting impatiently for this moment. Those who were lucky enough to be in the room for these readings savoured every morsel from the mind of Camp’s 14-year-old self: hilarious, outrageous, dramatic, raw. Finally, the full glorious tome is here, and in style thanks to stunning book design by Todd Atticus." Claire Mabey, The Spinoff
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