Jonny Woo on new show Suburbia: ‘I’ll still be the first to get naked and jump on stage’

Jonny Woo is starring in new Soho Theatre show Suburbia (Image: Simon Phipps)

Whether it’s wild nights at New York’s seediest venues or becoming one of London’s most outrageous and beloved performers, Jonny Woo has lived several lifetimes in the pursuit of artistic liberation. Now, the underground legend and self-proclaimed “interminable show-off” is laying it all bare in his latest show Suburbia at the Soho Theatre.

It’s a far cry from his beginnings in the streets of Medway, Kent, where secrets lurked behind net curtains and conformity was the greatest virtue. But it was precisely this mundane starting point that sparked Woo’s explosive journey through the queer scenes of two continents, eventually establishing himself as the crown prince of London’s alternative performance world.

At fifty-something, Woo isn’t just reflecting on

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