After the success of the made - for - British - TV movie The Naked
Civil Servant, which was based on his memoir, Crisp is commissioned
by a small theater in Manhattan's Bowery to perform a one - man show; word - of - mouth spreads about his unfiltered wit and shrewd observations about the gay community and cultural zeitgeist at large, which lands him gigs on late - night TV chat shows via his newly
acquired agent (Swoosie Kurtz).