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Soho Cinders: Love on Old Compton St and other fairy tales
Soho Cinders ☆☆☆☆ Charing Cross Theatre, London If you are ready for some traditional seasonal fun but not quite ready to go full panto until after Guy Fawkes this bouncing romantic musical twist on the Cinderella story has immediately likeable tunes that are show stopping in places but never stop the story. Each of the…
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Halloween at Hotel Gaythering (before the drink kicked in)
Never send in a boy to do a man’s job. Our videographer (who prefers to remain anonymous) went to film Hôtel Gaythering fab Halloween Party BUT instead decided to soon put his camera down and drink the Bar dry
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Never Again is Now : how the rise in antisemitism is a threat to all Jewish lives
Evelyn Marcus a Dutch Jew starts her documentary acknowledging about her extremely good fortune that both her parents, and their families, were Holocaust survivors. Growing up in a Amsterdam suburb as a comfortable middle class family in the post WW2 Years, the emphasis of the Marcus family was celebrating life to the fullest. This…
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Phillip Guttmann : when a Black Hat is a symbol of repression
Queerguru talks with Phillip Guttmann the writer and co-producer of BlackHat a short powerful queer film that just won the £30K prestigious Iris Prize Festival : the story is of an Hasidic man living a secret double life misplaces his black hat one night which will cause his two separate lives to collide in a way he…
