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Call Me Dusty

Sun. 23 February 2025 at 19:30–21:45

The Montgomery

£19.50

Call Me Dusty is a play with music, by Derek Webb.

For millions, Dusty Springfield was the definitive pop diva. Her lifestyle was the stuff of legend – and great drama.

With her relentless quest for perfection and refusal to compromise, Dusty Springfield led a tortured life. Her stage persona – extravagant black mascara and back combed hair – was at odds with the quiet, shy convent girl, Mary O’Brien, and her sexuality. The result was a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol-abuse and self-harm but despite all that she produced tremendous music, which still ranks as some of the finest of its kind.

The story is as valid today as it was in the 1960s by documenting the transient effects of fame and the damage it can do.

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