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COOKIE : Soho Playhouse NY TWO NIGHTS ONLY heartbreakingly intimate and darkly hilarious
Cookie is a one-person, five-act tragicomic play that blends vaudeville’s theatricality with the raw intimacy of backstage confessions. It follows Cookie Jackson, a magnetic performer who captivates audiences with humor, wit, and dazzling showmanship. Yet, beyond the footlights, they wrestle with trauma, identity, and the struggle to reclaim their own story. Set in a symbolic…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ODD FISH a beautiful, and rare, queer film from Iceland
Queer storytelling is constantly evolving in the right direction, and it’s been good to see the latest crop of new films increasingly focus on queer life in smaller towns and villages around the world rather than the more obvious big urban centres. Another welcome development, particularly for trans characters, is for the queer story not…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews HEISENBERG ‘Complex and surprising, highly demanding for the performers, and deeply rewarding for the audience.’
Heisenberg **** Arcola Theatre Heisenberg, directed by Katharine Farmer and written by Simon Stephens is an extraordinarily worthwhile challenge. Both to the performers and the audience. At first, it throws up the question, what is this? As it starts with a perplexing absurdity. And at one point, there is an AHA moment! This is what…
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Help save San Francisco’s fabulous ROXIE THEATER the oldest continuously operated cinema in the United States
Having just returned from a flying visit to San Francisco, it’s nigh on impossible to get the city out of our mind again…. hence the last few postings on QG. Like nearly every gay man in the US we not only have such fond memories of time spent there but we are also anxious to…
