Tag: Kings Head Theatre
Howard’s End : the story of one of the UK’s (closeted) gay icons
In the 1960s and 1970s comedian Frankie Howard was one of the major stars of British Television. He was also like many performers of that time a closeted homosexual, as coming out then was considered professional suicide. Homosexuality was still illegal in the UK until the law changed in 1969 but it still took several…
Alan Turing The Musical : the tale of a queer wartime hero and gay icon
We are often very surprised about how and where composers chose their subject matters when creating a new musical. So far it’s been The First Lady of Argentina, a TS Elliot poetry book about cats, and Tim Rice even based one of his on a game of Chess. Now Joel Goodman & Jan Osborne…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah returns to London’s Kings Head Theatre for the hilarious AND THEN THE RODEO BURNED DOWN
And Then The Rodeo Burned Down★★★★ Kings Head Theatre in Islington until 11th February. And Then the Rodeo Burned Down is a delightful theatrical romp of a queer rodeo currently on at London’s iconic Kings Head Theatre in Islington. New York-based writer/performer duo Chloe Rice and Natasha Roland have brought their playful…
Two Good Reasons why you should start the New Year at the Kings Head Theatre in London
Here are TWO good reasons to make tracks to the King’s Head one of the very best ‘fringe theatres’ in London. Firstly with New Year’s Eve just around the corner, whether we know it or not, our minds turn to Robert aka Rabbie Burns who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland This great pioneer…
Queerguru”s Andrew Hebden reviews Tell Me Straight …… ( and writes ‘settle for nothing less’)
Tell Me Straight ☆☆☆☆ Kings Head Theatre, London Tell Me Straight will sound off-putting to a lot of people. A play about a gay man who has a succession of hopeless relationships with straight men conjures up images of a self-loathing tragic character chasing the impossible, doomed to unhappiness because he would despise anyone who…
