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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘HEDDA’ a hedonistic reinvention of Ibsen’s classic tale.
Oh Hedda! What have you done now? Hedda Gabler has been causing trouble since 1891 when Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s namesake play was first performed. Since then, it’s had various reincarnations, its latest, Hedda, lavishly reimagined by director Nia DaCosta from a queer perspective, takes place in high society at a beautiful country estate in…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the fantastic, politically-relevant WICKED FOR GOOD
A screening of The Wizard of Oz is one of the UK’s most enduring festive traditions, as common a ritual as eating mince pies and drinking sherry. Director Jon M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good offers an alternative option for this year. Based on Act Two of the successful Broadway musical, the sequel to last year’s…
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ANTONY PRICE one of the very first (and the best) to meld fashion and rock together has died aged 80
Antony Price, who has just died at the age of 80, was orignally an ‘up and coming’ fashion designer in 1974 he opened a store in London’s King Road around the corner from Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s shop. His raisin d’etre was “Clothes for Studs and Starlets’’ and the space was described by Vogue…
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Netflix shamefully cancels another Queer Show after just one Season : OLYMPO bites the dust
It looks like NETFLIX is determined to ruin our queer Christmas this year, as hot on the heels of the news, they are cancelling the critically and commercially acclaimed series BOOTS (read HERE) comes a report today that another LGBTQ+ program is for the chop. Olympo, the queer-inclusive drama from the creators of long-running LGBTQ+…
