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Ginger Beer
If you don’t know English cockney rhyming slang you may not know that what the title of this play really means, although the picture may give you a big clue. It’s the story of twenty-something Sammy as he tries to navigate the gay male scene. It can all be tough going, between gay male saunas,…
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Just Dance : Tempest
Paris-based filmmaker Julien Pujol made this very striking wee film with Germain Louvet one of the stars of the Paris Opera Ballet. With its Wagnerian score the creative director Delphine Roche called it ‘Tempest’ as she said the storm is a powerful motif, one that is repeatedly present in the history of painting, literature and…
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The Paris Opera
The movie cameras are back at The Paris Opera again, but unlike Fredrick Wiseman’s 2009 documentary La danse, and the 2015 film Reset that tracked Benjamin Millepied’s first full year as the Opera Ballet’s new director, this new film from Swiss director Jean-Stephane Bron is all about drama. Most of which seems to happen off-stage. The…
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Miss Hope Springs Sings ….. and so much more
We are getting our tuxedo ready to get all dolled up as next week we have a date with the glamorous chanteuse Miss Hope Springs. This sophisticated award-winning star of London’s cabaret scene who sings of big hopes and broken dreams has agreed to meet as long as we don’t bring up her past at the…
