a-z index - QUEERGURU

Seven Dials Playhouse partnership with 56 Dean Street Clinic to promote sexual health

We always love to share good news from our community, and this particular nugget warms our hearts. One of London’s best fringe theatres Seven Dials Playhouse and Manchester’s theater company Hive North have just announced a new partnership with award-winning NHS sexual health service, 56 Dean Street. The timing couldn’t be more … Continue reading

SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN

Galia has spent the last year recovering from a terrorist bus bombing in Jerusalem, and the extent of her trauma is profound. She suffers from unbearable burn scars that cover her back, intermittent panic attacks and a fractured memory. When her boyfriend Oren—also a victim of the attack—is removed from life support, Galia discovers that … Continue reading

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS

Marty is a screenwriter who has writer’s block. All his blank page has so far is a title ‘7 Psychopaths’ and nothing else. Quite where he dragged this up is never really explained and as he pours himself his umpteenth drink he also pours out his woes to his best friend petty criminal/would-be actor and … Continue reading

Seventeen aka Siebzehn

This intriguing coming of age movie is set in Lanzenkirchen in Lower Austria, the home town of the writer/director Monja Art, so it is probably safe to say that some of the trials and tribulations of the teenagers involved in this story are drawn from her own life experiences. The problems that seem to vex this one … Continue reading

Sex/Crime skillfully presents an uncompromising examination of the darker side of modern queer sexuality

If The Glory is the epicenter of the best in alternative queer performance, then Sex/Crime premieres in its spiritual home. The sharp, precise and witty script (from actor/playwright Alexis Gregory) ensures a hypnotic momentum to the action from the start and the pace rarely slips. Sex/Crime is an inky black comedy (think Joe Orton’s What … Continue reading