Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWild(e) Tales: Tales From the Shadows ☆☆☆ Vault Festival, Waterloo It’s no secret that I worship and adore Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, so it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I took my seat for this shadow puppet show of some of his children’s stories, originally written for his two sons, Cyril … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBUTTERFLY (3.5 Stars) BEDLAM CHORUS VAULT FESTIVAL, LONDON This was my introduction to the work of Bedlam Chorus and my first thought was how appropriate that name is (in the best possible way, no shade). There’s something gloriously ramshackle about this outfit, from the malfunctioning home-made costumes to the, at times, barely audible storytelling. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIt’s difficult to write about this text, mainly because it defies categorisation and scrambles the logic of what we understand by the noun, “novel”. Whilst the front cover proclaims it is a novel, the inside blurb calls it ‘a mash-up of love story, pornography, art criticism, literary appropriation, and essayistic meditation, operating on the peripheries … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterOn the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place By Mike Parker As a sub-genre, or micro-genre, what we might call ‘queer rural’ is rather on the small side, because writers, more often than not, tend to locate their queer narratives – as queers mostly live their lives – in cities. For many LGBTQ … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterTime and Tide ☆☆ The Park Theatre London You might think a play set in a sleepy backwater British coastal town would be dull as ditch water, and you’d be dead right. With sledge-hammer subtlety and zero evidence of subtext, this play is set entirely in May’s Caff, which never seems to have any customers. … Continue reading
