Waiting for Bacon

The play tells the story of how Francis, invited to Paris in 1972 for the first major retrospective of his work, at the Grand Palais, took his lover and favourite model, George Dyer, to stay in a small hotel on the Left Bank. Accompanied by Sonia Orwell, the couple began drinking on the train to Paris and continued through the night. But while the painter was being feted George Dyer, whose image dominated the exhibition, was left behind in the hotel to brood on the treacherous disloyalty of his lover. The evening of triumph turned to tragedy.

This event takes place at The Minories Galleries, 74 High Street, Colchester CO1 1UE