Edinburgh Fringe
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews The Next Act’s ALAN BENNETT’S TALKING HEADS at Edinburgh Fringe
Talking Heads is a series of well-loved British monologues written for BBC TV by gay multi-award-winning playwright Alan Bennett and originally broadcast in 1988 and 1998. Some episodes have appeared on PBS in the United States under the umbrella of Masterpiece Theatre. Spread over two evenings, local women’s theatre group The Next Act are performing…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm witnesses ‘JULIAN CLARY in FULLY DILATED’ : his triumphant return to Edinburgh Fringe
In Fully Dilated, Julian Clary promises to reveal “intimate secrets of my life and share the traumas that have led me to lead the life of a camp comic and renowned homosexual” Some background for the uninitiated: In the eighties, through his exposure on the then-new and radical TV Channel 4, stand-up comedian Julian Clary…
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Rebecca Donovan asks ‘What’s The Craic God?’ at Edinburgh Fringe
When the flyer from Irish actor/writer Rebecca Donovan landed in Queerguru’s in-tray, it put a big smile on our editor’s face. He may be a US citizen now, but his family is in Northern Ireland, and they all ask each other “What’s The Craic?” In his house, God is not the decision maker. It’s pronounced…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews ‘LINUS WAS HIT WITH AN UMBRELLA’ @ Edinburgh Fringe
Last year my final show at the Fringe was Linus Karp’s hysterical gay panto The Fit Prince. The charming young Swede is back in Edinburgh with a more serious offering, based on a homophobic attack which he personally experienced. The stage is set like a 1950s black and white illustration of a street in Soho,…
