Andrew Hebden
The Pleasure Garden: A Vauxhall Musical : reviewed by Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden
The Pleasure Garden ☆☆☆☆ Above The Stag Theatre, London If you were thirsty for a better musical after this week’s release on Amazon Prime of the one dimensional and utterly forgettable Everybody is Talking About Jamie then fear not, to the rescue comes The Pleasure Gardens, which is fruity, spirited, and welcome as a bowl…
Queerguru @ London Film Festival : Andrew Hebden reviews the excellent FLEE
It’s the (second) most wonderful time of the year. The 2021 London Film Festival is about to heap a feast of brand-new meaty morsels on us and Queerguru is ready to slice it, dice it, and serve it up fresh. There was no better or more challenging way to plunge into this year’s programming than…
Queerguru”s Andrew Hebden reviews Tell Me Straight …… ( and writes ‘settle for nothing less’)
Tell Me Straight ☆☆☆☆ Kings Head Theatre, London Tell Me Straight will sound off-putting to a lot of people. A play about a gay man who has a succession of hopeless relationships with straight men conjures up images of a self-loathing tragic character chasing the impossible, doomed to unhappiness because he would despise anyone who…
Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ‘Happy Ending’ and warns it can be Slippery when wet
Happy Ending ☆☆☆☆ The Garden Theatre, London Fantasies are slippery things. Do you want what you want because you can’t have it? If you get what you want, will you still want it? Happy Ending by Ronnie Larsen at The Garden Theatre Summer Festival is a tricksy, fun, slap on the butt that manages to…