Andrew Hebden
Die Walkure at Hackney Empire : Like a Virgin – Opera for beginners
Die Walkure ☆☆☆☆ Arcola Theatre at Hackney Empire Here at Queerguru, we pride ourselves on being very much part of the Try-It-You-Might-Like-It -Club. Indeed one of the senior team is rumored to have that as a tramp stamp in cursive. However, when we got the invite to review Wagner’s opera Die Walkure at the…
Not The Edinburgh Fringe : Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden and a fistful of flyers
Not the Edinburgh Fringe ☆☆☆☆ Above the Stag Theatre, London For the second year in a row, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has been canceled. There are hordes of writers, performers, directors, and producers gasping to get their work in front of an audience. The Above the Stag Theatre, our current favorite Vauxhall venue, has stepped…
Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews “Oh We Do Like to Be” @ London’s Turbine Theatre
Oh! We Do Like to Be ☆☆☆☆ Turbine Theatre This play’s first half is already half full Like a ripening banana queer theatre in London is slowly poking its way out of the lockdown. And let us tell you Queerguru is more than ready to have at that fruit. One of the rare benefits of…
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation : reviewed by Andrew Hebden
For those of us who might be outrageously, but fairly, accused of being more interested in mentioning that we have read Truman Capote or Tennesse Williams than actually reading them, this is the perfect documentary. Its mixture of biography, gossip, observations, and anecdotes in their famously distinct voices conveys a sense of both their…
