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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews CHUCK CHUCK BABY : is love better the second time around?
There is no reason why my beign shy shoul keep us apart… In a land not so far away, we learn about generosity, female relationships and queer romance. A white fluffy Dandelion´s seed pods flies around and gets into a room with pink walls where Helen´s hands receive it. Helen (Louise Brealey) lives with…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews FOAM a brilliant new play on at London’s ground-breaking, award-winning Finborough Theatre
FOAM ⚝⚝⚝⚝⚝ Foam is a brilliant new play on at London’s ground-breaking, award-winning Finborough Theatre in Earls Court, a theatre that’s been specialising in new and rediscovered plays since 1980. The debut play from playwright Harry McDonald, Foam, is loosely based on the life of infamous gay skinhead Londoner Nicky Crane, whom we…
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The Life and Death of (the truely wonderful) Lily Savage
Its not often that this reviewer finds himself laughing hysterically and then crying whilst watching the same film. But then this very incisive and affectionate documentary is about one of the most endearing and talented queer entertainers I have ever had the joy of seeing perform so many times. Lily Savage, the drag…
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A Rehearsed Reading of Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award Winning LETTICE & LOVAGE in aid of Alzheimer’s Research UK.
If you’re trying to think of the most quintessentially English theatre evening possible, then look no further than last night’s performance of Peter Shaffer’s 1987 play Lettice and Lovage. Acting legends Maureen Lipman, Anne Reid and Tom Conti took to the stage at the Ambassador’s Theatre in London’s West End for a one-night…
