Linus Karp is a London-based Swedish actor, writer, theatremaker, and full-time princess. He runs Awkward Productions alongside his creative and life partner Joseph Martin and together they have just enjoyed a sold-out critically acclaimed run of DIANA. THE UNTOLD STORY. (see https://queerguru.com/linus-karp-dian…) So the pair of them have gone from Royal Princess to Hollywood Princess for their new show GWYNETH GOES SKIING. Very loosely based on a recent Court Case when the Hollywood Star was sued for causing an accident on the ski slopes. She countered sued but it was the Trial that made for such good (and bad) theatre that Karp and Martin seized upon it as the subject for their new comic parody that will play at London’s Pleasance Theatre this December
Queerguru caught up with them both the day before they were due to start rehearsals to get the low down (and try and squeeze out of them the date they expect Miss P to be in the audience)
P.S. There is one final perfomance of ‘Diana’ at the glorious Clapham Grand on Dec 6th
In response to the homophobic attack outside Clapham’s Two Brewers in August, Awkward Productions are hosting ‘QUEER LOVE WINS’ at Two Brewers on Sunday 17th September – a spectacular evening of queer joy, solidarity, music, and comedy in aid of LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall and their important work tackling queer phobia. QUEER LOVE WINS is created … Continue reading
Queerguru talked with Karp on the eve of his London Premiere which proceeds a National UK Tour about his irreverent and hilarious must-see comic parody
I guess you could say that writer/performer Linus Karp has one of those delightfully warped minds we have come to expect ….. and really love from our favorite queer talented acts. We often have a discussion in the Queerguru Office about how gay can you actually get. In the case of Linus … Continue reading
We often have a discussion in the Queerguru Office about how gay can you actually get. In the case of Brit queer actor/performer Linus Karp it’s very clear: anyone who spends time finding any kind of subtext in an Andrew Lloyd Webber movie musical is super-gay. In Linus’ case thats’ actually, a compliment as … Continue reading
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Swedish-born London-based 