London
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Catherine Opie – To Be Seen, an exhibition of the artist’s remarkable portraiture, now on at London’s National Portrait Gallery.
Queer America is under attack at the moment, so the representation of LGBTQ American lives is more important than ever. It’s therefore ideal timing for Catherine Opie’s first major UK museum show, To Be Seen, which is now on at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Since she launched her career in the late 1980s, queer representation…
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Category is Macbeth : Tuckshop’s prodcution of an all new Drag Macbeth opens in London
In Shakespeare’s day, it was the norm for all the female parts in his plays to be played by men …..and here we are some 400 years later and the practice is being revived with a drag version of Macbeth. Good choice when you think about it as after all Macbeth is a Shakespearean tragedy…
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Queerguru’sRis Fatah previews Shooting From Below, the new show by Midgitte Bardot, on at London’s Southbank Centre …….from 9-11th April.
Fancy something different? Then check out Midgitte Bardot’s (great name!) new show, Shooting From Below at London’s Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room from April 9th -11th. Midgitte Bardot, aka artist Tamm Reynolds, explores just who is really dwarfing whom. For centuries, performance has been written into dwarf bones without consent. They are local celebrities with little…
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Queerguru’s nimble footed justin David reviews ‘JAIVANT PATEL’S ASTITVA’
Astitva – Jaivant Patel (choreographer and director) The Place, London, Euston There’s something deliciously unsettling about the opening of Astitva, Jaivant Patel’s new dance work at The Place. The audience files in to find the dancers already on stage, moving slowly, almost tentatively, as though we’ve walked into a ritual already in progress. A traditional…
