Jonathan Kemp
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Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp waxes lyrically about Gothic Opera’s new production of BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE
Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartok Porchester Hall, London, July 8th-10th ☆☆☆☆ In mid-March 2020 – which feels now like eons ago – I waxed lyrical about a certain dancer, Carmine de Amicis, in his role as Jokanaan in a dance-theatre adaptation of Wilde’s Salomé . Then Covid19 struck and a hurdle-track of lockdowns prevented…
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Queerguru’s JONATHAN KEMP is less than impressed with BATLAVA LAKE the latest novel from Adam Mars-Jones
I’ve been a huge fan of Mars-Jones’s work since I read his first book, The Lantern Lectures, back in the mid-eighties, followed by the shared collection of HIV/AIDS stories with Edmund White, A Darker Proof; and the first novel, The Waters of Thirst. In 1983 he edited a wonderful anthology of queer fiction entitled, Mae…
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Frock The World: Vol. 2, Fuelling Fantasy. Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp says ‘Enter If You Dare’
The brainchild of creative director and photographer,Eli Schmidt, Frock the World is a high-end publication devoted to providing an uncensored space for queer culture. The name’s potentially misleading, given that there’s virtually nothing about frocks, After Volume One (Physical Sensation), this second issue is dedicated to fantasy because, as Schmidt says, “after a long…
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UN//TITLED: An Anthology of Queer Contemporary Art, 2016-2020 Balaclava.Q reviewed by JONATHAN KEMP
Established by artist/director Stiofan O’Ceallaigh in 2016 in response to the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, and named after the hood/headwear that obscures the face/identity and associated perhaps most powerfully with terrorism – and more recently with Pussy Riot – Balaclava.Q is an International Queer Art Project & Collective focused on connecting, promoting and creating…
