Jonathan Kemp
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ; and so does Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ☆☆☆☆ Union Theatre, London Directed by Sasha Regan Anita Loos’ 1925 novel (famously championed by James Joyce) was first turned into a stage musical in 1949, and must have seemed dated even then, much of the original novel’s caustic indictment of the Jazz Age already softened or lost on its postwar…
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Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp reviews LaJohn Joseph’s compelling performance in A GENEROUS LOVER
A Generous Lover ☆☆☆☆☆ LaJohn Joseph Camden People’s Theatre, London IMHO, LaJohn Joseph is one of the most compelling performers around so I suggest you hot foot it down to the Camden People’s Theatre to catch this all-too-short rerun of their solo show, “A Generous Lover”, that wowed audiences and critics at Edinburgh Fringe…
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Jonathan Kemp reviews Megan Volpert ‘glorious mishmash’ memoir BOSS BROAD
Volpert describes herself as “a theory junkie who cannot resist rock ‘n’ roll”, which, as a fan of both theory and music, drew me immediately. She is also a high school English teacher and political activist, and her latest book demonstrates amply all the rich facets of her life and interests. Boss Broad is…
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Jonathan Kemp reviews ‘the consummate storytelling’ of Stones in London Kings Head Theatre
THE STONES ☆☆☆☆ KINGS HEAD THEATRE Writer/director Kit Brookman describes his latest offering as “a sort of contemporary gothic horror story” and there are certainly shades of Robert Aickman, Shirley Jackson and Henry James’ ‘Turn of the Screw’ in The Stones. A dissatisfied school teacher, Nick (LUKE MULLINS) meets up with an old school…
