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Jonny Ward’s ☆☆☆☆☆ review of the revival of Philip Ridley’s masterpiece VINCENT RIVER
VINCENT RIVER ☆☆☆☆☆ TRAFALGAR STUDIOS, LONDON This is a must-see, muscular revival of a play first performed at the Hampstead Theatre back in 2000. Philip Ridley’s masterpiece has lost none of its explosive power with this production which is directed by Robert Chevara with great clarity and an unbroken line of tension from curtain…
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Gingzilla : She’s A Lady
Gingzilla is a 7ft ginger beard Australian GLAMONSTER an award Winning International Cabaret and Performance Artist. Last year she shocked Simon Cowell with her dynamite performance on the UK’s The X Factor. Now she is about to face the usually stony faced Cowell again this week when she appears on NBC’ America’s Got Talent. In…
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Turn Back Time : The Queen of Lincoln Road, Miami
There are many members of the LGBTQ community in Miami Beach who would love to claim this title for themselves but there was, and will always be, only one Queen of Lincoln Road. The diminutive IRENE WILLIAMS cut quite a figure for about 40 years wearing her home designed and made outfits in an array…
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Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens : a richer and more diverse Inheritance
Elegies for Angels, Punks AND Raging Queens ☆☆☆☆ Union Theatre, London In a year in which The Inheritance claimed every kind of London theatre accolade it’s a tough job to put on an AIDS crisis era play without inviting comparison. Happily, when contrasted rather than compared, Elegies sets its own standard. It is different…
