Jonathan Kemp
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Jonathan Kemp reviews THE VIEW UPSTAIRS at Soho Theatre, London
The View UpStairs ☆☆☆ Soho Theatre, London The real life event forming the basis and inspiration for this musical is the arson attack in 1973 on a queer bar in New Orleans, killing 32 people (mostly gay men); woefully underreported at the time due to strong levels of societal homophobia. In 1973, 7 out…
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Notes and Queeries : Keith Jarrett at the British Library
Queerguru’s London Correspondent JONATHAN KEMP has another day job too. He is the published author of London Triptych (Myriad, 2010) which was shortlisted for the inaugural Green Carnation Prize and won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award in 2011. His other fiction works include Twentysix (2011) and Ghosting (2015), and his nonfiction works include…
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Jonathan Kemp “absolutely loved this queer take on Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” : his review of WIFE at London’s Kiln Theatre
Wife By Samuel Adamson ☆☆☆☆ KILN THEATRE, Kilburn The Norwegian Feminist theorist Toril Moi once commented that the slam of the door at the end of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” (1879) resounded throughout the twentieth century. Samuel Adamson’s new play explores the repercussion of that slammed door well into the twenty first century in…
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Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp reviews The Luncheon part of the Queer Season at London’s Tristan Bates Theatre
The Luncheon ☆☆☆ By Kace Monney and Luis Amalia Curated by Otherland Theatre Tristan Bates Theatre “Do not come looking for answers”, the blurb warns. The performances are engaging and flawless, the two actors engaging with each other with vitality and energy and a great familiarity. It’s unclear how scripted this is, as there’s…
