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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward reviews Two Fest 2020 a series of two-handed plays

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  Two Fest 2020 (programme B) ☆☆☆ The Space, London It’s a novel idea: take a selection of the best in up and coming playwrights; set the brief that it should be short two-handed plays only; then create a festival of spikey, fun and thoughtful new writing across three densely packed programmes; Voila! Two Fest! … Continue reading



James Sweeney Straight Up : the story of a confused (cute) gay man

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One of the hottest movies to do the LGBTQ Film Festival circuit last year and that received unanimous rave reviews was STRAIGHT UP.  It was the feature film directing debut of JAMES SWEENEY  a young queer filmmaker from LA who also wrote and produced and took the starring role. His story of Todd a man … Continue reading




Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp reviews Mike Parker’s “On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place”

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On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place By Mike Parker  As a sub-genre, or micro-genre, what we might call ‘queer rural’ is rather on the small side, because writers, more often than not, tend to locate their queer narratives – as queers mostly live their lives – in cities. For many LGBTQ … Continue reading



QUEER LATES X QUEERSTORY : a cabaret show to celebrate our Queer History

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  One of Queerguru’s favorite cabaret performers PETER GROOM  who IS Marlene Dietrich incarnate is joining the cast of QUEER LATES X QUEERSTORY at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London. This one-night-only show will celebrate some of our Queer ancestors in the cabaret-lecture-variety show of the century as part  of LGBTQ+ History Month  Mercury … Continue reading



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