Jonny Ward goes to CLUEDO CLUB KILLINGS to try to work out Who Really Did It?

Did Professor Plum kill the Reverend Green in the Ballroom with the Candlestick? No this is not the latest kinky sex scandal to hit London but rather the sort of question you might ask yourself whilst watching The Cluedo Club Killings – the latest production by the Arcola Queer Collective. Based at the Arcola Theatre in … Continue reading

Jonny Ward is enamoured with Pippa Winslow’s stand out performance in STRIKE UP THE BAND

  Strike Up The Band ☆☆☆ Upstairs at the Gatehouse It has to be one of the more unusual topics for a musical: a quintessential American business magnate (making cheese – for comedy value!) manipulates the US Government into war with tiny neutral Switzerland in order to protect his profits. As the programme notes suggest … Continue reading

Jonny Ward is in raptures about Frances Barber’s star turn in the Pet Shop Boys MUSIK

Musik ☆☆☆☆ Leicester Square Theatre Frances Barber is a legend of stage and screen. You might know her as a feisty lawyer in BBC TV’s Silk or caught her as Goneril opposite McKellen in King Lear. Here she plays a startlingly different role in this hilarious tale of a faded rock stars life. It is … Continue reading

Jonny Ward on the funny and fresh take on Chemsex in Christopher Adam’s TUMULUS

Tumulus ☆☆☆☆ Soho Theatre, London There is a long and growing list of plays that take the Chemsex experience as their concept and Queerguru has reviewed quite a few of them including Bingo, Chemsex Monologues and Undetectable. Tumulus is different, not only because it is produced by the Outside Edge Theatre Company (the UK’s only … Continue reading

Jonny Ward reviews ‘And The Rest Of Me Floats’ about the messiness of gender

      And The Rest Of Me Floats  ☆☆☆ Bush Theatre The Bush Theatre is a small theatre with a huge reputation for new writing and, most notably for an LGBT audience, it is where the seminal play ‘Beautiful Thing’ by Jonathan Harvey had its world premiere back in 1993. ‘And The Rest Of … Continue reading

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