Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ON RAILTON ROAD that recreates a particularly heady period in London’s queer history.

  ON RAILTON ROAD  ⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎ MUSEUM OF THE HOME, HOXTON, LONDON It’s hard to believe, but free housing was once plentiful in London. In the 1970s and 80s, squatting was common and there were empty properties all over the city. Queer groups of people squatted too. One such group, the Brixton Faeries, famously held court … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews renowned filmmaker ISAAC JULIEN’S major retrospective WHAT FREEDOM MEANS TO ME @ London’s Tate Gallery

Renowned filmmaker Isaac Julien’s biggest show to date, What Freedom Means To Me, is currently on at London’s Tate Britain. Julien’s films tell important stories – queer stories, black stories, and social justice stories. Julien, himself a gay black man, has a 40-year story-telling history, including Derek, his 2008 film narrated by Tilda Swinton, about … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SARAH LUCAS HAPPY GAS a brilliant, fun, thought-provoking show @ Tate Britain

    Cock, tits, arse, sex, cigarettes, ham sandwiches on sliced white bread, lurid tabloid headlines and suggestive photographs. What passes for a perfect day at the seaside for most Brits, is also the backbone of British artist Sarah Lucas’s work of the past thirty years, now enjoying a well-deserved retrospective, Happy Gas, at London’s … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the ‘provoking, passionate 90 minutes ‘KISS MARRY KILL’ an electrifying queer prison love story

  KISS MARRY KILL ⚝⚝⚝⚝⚝ Stone Nest , London Kiss Marry Kill is a fantastic new play currently on at London’s Stone Nest performance space. Previously the legendary Limelight club, Stone Nest’s cavernous dark and gloomy Victorian chapel is the perfect setting for this provocative queer prison drama based on an amazing true story, and … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Tom Ratcliffe’s award-winning WRECKAGE at London’s Turbine Theatre

      Wreckage ★★★★ Turbine Theatre Twenty-five-year-old Sam (Tom Ratcliff) and his older boyfriend Noel (Michael Walters) live a comfortable, domesticated life together with their cat. Then one morning, whilst doing a favour for Sam, Noel crashes his car into a river and dies. So begins Wreckage, a clever new play written by Tom … Continue reading

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