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Jonathan Kemp ☆☆☆☆☆ review of JOCK NIGHT : Adam Zane’s drama with emotional depth and savage wit.
JOCK NIGHT ☆☆☆☆☆ Hope Theatre Company King’s Head, Islington, London Adam Zane’s background is in verbatim theatre, and that commitment to verisimilitude is on clear display in his first full-length non-verbatim play, JOCK NIGHT. In the programme notes he details the months of researching chemsex, interviewing men whose lives have been affected by it.…
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Tony Awards get gayer every year
When the 2019 Tony Nominations were announced the list included an execptional number of potential LGBTQ winners The Prom, a musical comedy about an Indiana lesbian whose prom is canceled after she’s forbidden to bring her girlfriend, earned a wonderful seven nominations : a groundbreaking result for a LGBTQ Broadway production. It included Best…
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Pasolini : on his last days
After premiering at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals back in 2014 Abel Ferrara’s movie ‘Pasolini’ has for some unknown reason has been stuck on a shelf somewhere until now. However now Kino Lorber the distributor of indie and art house movies has released the film to select US movie theaters. It’s the story…
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Tucked : Drag Queens’s Bucket List is short and very sweet
If you only had 6 weeks to live, what would you do? If you don’t know, aren’t sure, or aren’t ready, this charmer is a terrific place to start. Jack or Jackie (Derren Nesbitt) is a 75 year old pub drag queen of the most traditional foul mouthed and boozie kind. Married for 54 years his wife’s death came…
