Tag: Jonny Ward
Queerguru reviews La Cage aux Folles (the play) : adapted by Simon Callow
La Cage aux Folles ☆☆☆☆ Park Theatre, London Many people will know the hilarious La Cage aux Folles from one of its many previous incarnations including three French films (1978,1980 and 1985), a musical version from 1983, and the Hollywood version featuring Robin Williams in 1996. Why might you ask do we need yet…
Queerguru’s Jonny Ward reviews Two Fest 2020 a series of two-handed plays
Two Fest 2020 (programme B) ☆☆☆ The Space, London It’s a novel idea: take a selection of the best in up and coming playwrights; set the brief that it should be short two-handed plays only; then create a festival of spikey, fun and thoughtful new writing across three densely packed programmes; Voila! Two Fest!…
Jonny Ward is in raptures about Frances Barber’s star turn in the Pet Shop Boys MUSIK
Musik ☆☆☆☆ Leicester Square Theatre Frances Barber is a legend of stage and screen. You might know her as a feisty lawyer in BBC TV’s Silk or caught her as Goneril opposite McKellen in King Lear. Here she plays a startlingly different role in this hilarious tale of a faded rock stars life. It is…
Passion on the Night Tube: The Story of a Fabulous Homeless Man on the Jubilee Line
Passion on the Night Tube ☆☆☆ ☆ The Vaults Festival, London The LGBTQ community can be vile and racist. It is a microcosm of the wider society and all its prejudices and ignorance so this should not be surprising. Why it hurts disproportionately is because it is supposed to be a place of refuge…
Queerguru is dazzled by magic of Miriam Teak-Lee very much the star of ‘& Juliet’, London’s latest hit musical
& Juliet ☆☆☆☆ Shaftesbury Theatre The plot for & Juliet opens with an intriguing proposition. What if Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare’s neglected wife) could take control of the plot of Romeo and Juliet and rewrite it to focus on Juliet’s desires. How would that female perspective change Shakespeare’s most famous romantic play? Throw in a selection…
