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Queerguru reviews Avant/Apres (Before/After) a rather fabulous absurdist comedy by Manoel DuPont
One of the favorite movie categories that all Queerguru reviewers love is one we call ‘downright weird,’ and this debut movie from French filmmaker Manoel DuPont fits it perfectly. His film is in the vein of the exceptional absurdist comedies of fellow Frenchman Quentin Dupieux, whose work …….like ‘Wrong‘ and “Rubber‘ are such firm favorites…
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The Real Black Swann: Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen opens in Chicago
The people of Chicago are in for a real theatrical treat as this is the next stop for creator/storyteller Les Kurkendaal-Barrett is bringing his one-man show The Real Black Swann: Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen. We will confess that we had not heard of William Dorsey Swann, who was not just a leading…
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THE queer photo-zine ELSKA checks out the gay men in Taiwan. Again
When ELSKA’s editor/photographer Liam Campbell told us he was flying back to Taiwan to shoot a new edition of his fab queer photozine in Taipai we were very curious to discover why this globe-trotting journalist wanted to take another look. After all is a very long way from the tiny market Town in Wales that…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews The Rock ‘n’ Roll Alien, a journey through the musical legacy of David Bowie, which was on at London’s Adelphi Theatre.
The theatre and rock ‘n’ roll are slightly incompatible bedfellows, which is odd considering the similarities in staging, performance, and audience expectation. Rock ‘n’ roll can be theatrical, but theatre is rarely successfully rock ‘n’ roll. This is the challenge facing The Rock ‘n’ Roll Alien, a journey through the musical legacy of David…
