London Theatre
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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward reviews Mission Creep @White Bear Theatre in London
Mission Creep ☆☆☆ The White Bear Theatre, London The exposition for Mission Creep, written by Bee Scott, is intriguing enough: Tess and Liam are determined to get off the planet at any cost. On paper, they’re the perfect applicants for Britain’s intergalactic relocation project: they’re young, fertile, and their queerplatonic relationship might even pass…
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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward gets all his senses TICKLED @ Kings Head Theatre
Tickle the Musical ☆☆☆☆ Kings Head Theatre London Way back in 2016 David Farrier, a New Zealand TV reporter, got hold of a story and would not let it go. This was the murky world of “competitive endurance tickling”. The documentary explored the possible legal and ethical issues raised in the production of…
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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward checks out a new recording of beloved Brit Camp Comedy Up Pompei
UP POMPEI The Shaw Theatre “Titter ye not!” The eternal cry of camp icon Frankie Howerd. Welcome to ancient Rome, where the steps of the Forum are peopled by nubile slave girls and a range of outrageous characters including Lurcio’s owner, Ludicrous Sextus the Senator, his wife Ammonia, his son Nausius and his…
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ; and so does Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ☆☆☆☆ Union Theatre, London Directed by Sasha Regan Anita Loos’ 1925 novel (famously championed by James Joyce) was first turned into a stage musical in 1949, and must have seemed dated even then, much of the original novel’s caustic indictment of the Jazz Age already softened or lost on its postwar…
