A Generous Lover ☆☆☆☆☆ LaJohn Joseph Camden People’s Theatre, London IMHO, LaJohn Joseph is one of the most compelling performers around so I suggest you hot foot it down to the Camden People’s Theatre to catch this all-too-short rerun of their solo show, “A Generous Lover”, that wowed audiences and critics at Edinburgh Fringe … Continue reading
On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place By Mike Parker As a sub-genre, or micro-genre, what we might call ‘queer rural’ is rather on the small side, because writers, more often than not, tend to locate their queer narratives – as queers mostly live their lives – in cities. For many LGBTQ … Continue reading
Presented in the form of thirteen poems, written and delivered in everyday speech, this one-person show details the journey of our protagonist, and presumably that of the performer delivering it, Nick Ishmael-Perkins. The performance is as much of the body as of the narrative that body lived through and there’s a wonderful physicality … Continue reading
Salomé ☆☆☆☆☆ EDIFICE Dance Theatre The Place, London Salomé is the biblical gift that just keeps giving, from Wilde’s scandalously decadent take on it and the Aubrey Beardsley drawings it inspired, to the curate’s egg of Ken Russell’s film version. Last year, I reviewed for Queerguru a production that cast Salomé as a pretty … Continue reading
A Prayer For Wings ☆☆☆☆ Written & Directed by Sean Mathias Kings Head Theatre, London Originally written as a commission for “a young actress who wanted a humdinger of a role”, according to Mathias’ programme note, A Prayer For Wings has been revived 35 years later, and retaining a freshness and relevance with its … Continue reading