Shelf: Teenage Men ⚝⚝⚝⚝ Soho Theatre In a world seemingly teetering on the cusp of the abyss, Shelf have a charm that’s hard to define. Deeply comforting and oddly wholesome Rachel WD and Ruby Clyde ease the audience along a journey of sexual and gender fluidity that seems effortlessly authentic, guilelessly hilarious, and wonderfully … Continue reading
When it comes to the subject of TV Soap Operas it seems to be the expected norm that the enormous success it enjoys in its home country doesn’t always translate when it airs internationally. Before you pull out your macbook and start to type furiously , I know there are many exceptions ….. … Continue reading
In the early 20th Century, before World War I, Munich, Germany was home to an international group of avant-garde artists who transformed modern art. Known as the Expressionists, their work focused on form, colour, sound and performance. A major new show at London’s Tate Modern gallery – Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue … Continue reading
Actor turned filmmaker Brian J Smith’s debut behind the camera is his love letter to Fire Island The place is evocative to so many queers around the world. The narrow ten square miles sand bar of 600 beach houses, a hundred co-ops, a beautiful beach, wooden boardwalks, no roads or cars, and a handful of commercial businesses is 49 miles off the coast of New York City in Long Island Sound. It’s played host to generations of queer New Yorkers looking for community, sex, sea, drugs, gorgeous wooden beach houses, nudity, hedonism and a dancefloor.
Smith carefully takes off his rose colored glasses to look at Fire Island’s past and to think ahead about its future. He tells us The Pines has always been a place that has been cared for by the people who live there, now going forward it must also be cared by all the visitors as well, if it is to survive Queerguru caught up with him prior to A House is Not a Disco screening at OUTshine in Miami …. the latest in its Festival run, Ris Fatah our reviewer gave it a rave review (see https://queerguru.com/queergurus-ris-… ) and we were anxious to know more about why Smith is so passionate about the place
You’re Going To Die. ⚝⚝⚝⚝ London’s Southwark Playhouse. Death, loss and anxiety, three unavoidable human conditions, are examined by the completely naked Adam Scott-Rowley, in his intense, very entertaining, monologue, You’re Going To Die, currently on at London’s excellent Southwark Playhouse. Part performance art, part theatre, we meet the nude Scott-Rowley, alone on the … Continue reading
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