London Theatre
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Queerguru’s JONNY WARD reviews CIRCA ‘fascinating and challenging in equal measure”
Circa ☆☆☆☆ Old Red Lion Has the LGBTQ community reached a crisis point? Has the hard won promise of endless sexual freedom begun to conflict with a desire to settle down and lead heteronormative lives? This revival of the 2016 play Circa approaches this dilemma in a deliciously complex way. A cast of five…
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Jonathan Kemp reviews ” Lipstick: A Fairy Tale of Modern Iran” at London’s Omnibus Theatre
Lipstick: A Fairy Tale of Modern Iran ☆☆ Omnibus Theatre I really, really wanted to like this. Great, I thought, once I’d read the blurb, a play exploring Iran’s queer subculture, about a boy who transforms every night into a beautiful woman. I was looking forward to it and invited a queer Iranian friend…
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Jonny Ward reviews the UK premiere of GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM ” a truly uplifting, optimistic treasure of a play”
Gently Down the Stream ☆☆☆☆☆ Park Theatre When a young man takes an older lover, is there always an ulterior motive, or can the reasons be purely romantic, sexual even? This is a question that is raised many times in ‘Gently Down The Stream’. The play is directed by Sean Mathias and written by…
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TOM STUART talks about playing the gay king EDWARD II in Marlowes classic play
Christopher Marlowe’s play EDWARD II written in the 16th Century about the medieval King who was deposed and beheaded is too rarely performed. Which makes this new production at The Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London even more special, particularly as for once the talented lead actor TOM STUART playing the role the gay…
